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Homebrew common mode choke A simple and quite tiny common mode choke that I built for my portable operations. 2023-10-26T13:36:26+02:00 2024-03-17T19:21:07+0000 true false false

So this is basically a 140-43 toroid with 9 turns of RG174 connected to BNC connectors.

It works very well and I have made two measurements recently.

{{< figure src="logmag_through.png" caption="The maximum loss is on 10m around 0.2dB" >}}

{{< figure src="logmag_outer.png" caption="It attenuates common mode current with more than 20dB" >}}

I find this okay for now but I still wonder if this can be made any better (maybe 30dB attenuation?). Would I benefit from even more attenuation?

I will probably find out on another day.