Ah, very good, John.

Sometimes, I get a bit of RFI in the motor home on a few 20-meter 
frequencies using my TS480 and screw-driver antenna, and the maker of the 
turbo-tuner I use to tune the screw driver said that I should put a choke on 
the motor wires at the antenna base.

I like your strategy of flipping the magnets around, and will definitely try 
it!

Glad I asked the question.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: correctly using Radio Shack RF chokes


> Well, where I used them on my phone lines here back when I had that 
> problem,
> I actually turned the magnets around and rapped the wire around them, so
> they were end to end, and I was winding the wire around in a channel using
> the plastic outer shell as a retainer almost after I was done and that
> worked. I'm not saying that is right or anything, but I know that worked 
> and
> that's the only time I ever have had any success with chokes, in most 
> cases
> I find them way over rated.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:07 PM
> Subject: correctly using Radio Shack RF chokes
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> This is probably self evident, and maybe I've done it the only way
>> possible,
>> but could someone tell me how to most effectively use the rectangular
>> Radio
>> Shack RF chokes for dealing with RFI?
>>
>> I guess I'm asking this question basically because my strategy doesn't
>> seem
>> to get any results whenever I try it.
>>
>> What I do is open the top of the choke, wind the wire through the bottom
>> of
>> the choke, and then close it up again.
>>
>> If there's some other way to use these chokes, please enlighten this
>> sometimes slow learner.  (grinning widely here)
>>
>> If you don't recall what the Radio Shack RF chokes are like, they are
>> rectangular in shape, with magnets on the inside.  You open the latch on
>> the
>> top, and then close it when you're done winding wires around it.
>>
>> Hope this somewhat convoluted e-mail makes sense.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>
>