{"id":1429,"date":"2026-05-31T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1429"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:15:52","slug":"30db-common-mode-choke","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/product\/30db-common-mode-choke\/","title":{"rendered":"30dB Common Mode Choke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An operator needs a common mode choke to prevent unwanted common mode currents from traveling along the outer shield of the coaxial feedline, which stops the cable itself from acting as part of the antenna system. By effectively isolating the antenna and suppressing these currents, the choke significantly lowers the receiver noise floor and prevents stray RF from causing feedback problems in the operating shack.<\/p>\n<h2>Engineering<\/h2>\n<p>Lower noise floor \/ calmer waterfall<br \/>\nRemoves the coax as part of your radiating element<\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<p>5ft of RG-58 Coax (15 Wraps)<br \/>\nFair-Rite FT240-43 Toroid<br \/>\nPL-259 &#8211;&gt;\u00a0 SO-239<br \/>\n1.8MHz &#8211; 50MHz Effective Range<br \/>\n~30dB of Attenuation<\/p>\n<h2>Graphics<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1431\" src=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_2-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_2-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1434\" src=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_4_1200px-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_4_1200px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_4_1200px-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_30DB_4_1200px-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>LOGMAG<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_LOGMAG_2_1000px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_LOGMAG_2_1000px.png 1000w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_LOGMAG_2_1000px-980x515.png 980w, https:\/\/k5acp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CMCCHOKE_LOGMAG_2_1000px-480x252.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An operator needs a common mode choke to prevent unwanted common mode currents from traveling along the outer shield of the coaxial feedline, which stops the cable itself from acting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[18,17,28],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1429","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-accessories","product_cat-antennas","product_cat-portable-ops","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k5acp.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}