BUY THIS KIT NOW TO SOLVE YOUR RFI ISSUES AND REDUCE COMMON MODE RECEIVER NOISE LEVELS FOR YOUR ICOM 9700 VHF/UHF RADIO. ALSO WORKS WITH MANY BRANDS OF HAM/COMMERCIAL HF RADIOS WITH SIMILAR FREQUENCY RANGES. This kit will help reduce or eliminate: 1. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) to electronic devices including audio/video systems, computers, telephones, garage door openers, alarm systems, and home appliances, in your house or your neighbor’s house. 2. RFI from other electronic devices such as switching power supplies, LED and fluorescent lights, battery chargers, Ethernet cables, solar systems, kitchen appliances, and cable/satellite TV systems which generate common mode currents on your radio cables. 3. These filters help cure SWR problems between transceiver and a linear amp and between transceiver and antenna tuner or direct to antenna. The DC power line filter helps keep common mode current out of the power line which could cause interference to other devices connected to the same power source. These chokes use a ferrite core material that is effective in suppressing RFI from transmitters and receivers experiencing a high noise floor in the .15-2000 MHz range. DC filter effective from .15-10 MHz, Snap On filters effective from 1-500 MHz and 200-2000 MHz identified for easy installation on selected antenna and I/O cables. The ferrite split beads and ring filters are easy to use, don’t require modification of the protected equipment and work in almost all cases, even when plug-in filters fail. Kit Includes 1 AC/DC noise reduction ring filter and 11 snap on filters for coax and I/O cables. Quick installation - immediate RFI/noise reduction. No radio mods required. If you use a linear amplifier use a Palomar Engineers amplifier RFI kit for additional RFI interference suppression.
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For RFI common mode suppression use, mix 31 is effective from 1-300 Mhz, mix 43 works from 25-300 Mhz, Mix 61 is for 200-2000 Mhz, and mix 77 favors .1-50 MHz. These frequencies are those of the interfering signal to be eliminated, not the operating frequencies of the equipment to be protected. See Mix Selection for other applications.
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Bead dimensions are shown in the picture below and in the table as A, B, C
Ferrite Bead Dimensions
Application Note: Use impedances for each bead at your desired frequency to select number of beads needed for desired Z. For example if you have a 50 ohm RG-8 coax cable and want a choking impedance of 500 ohms at 10 Mhz, you can check the FB102 column (since FB102 will pass RG-8 through its center ID) at 10Mhz and find that Mix 31 has a Z of 108 ohms/bead and Mix 43 has a Z of 91 ohms/bead. For 500 ohms we would need 5 mix 31 beads or 6 mix 43 beads to have greater than 500 ohms. Mix 31 has better response below 10 Mhz but above 10 Mhz mix 31 and mix 43 are very close. If you need more Z, just use more beads in series on the cable or use more windings thru a larger ID bead (e.g. USE FB102-31 for 4 turns of RG-8X for 16X increase in Z per bead – see pictures below for examples). Use Mix 61 for VHF and above for RFI/EMI suppression and below 30 Mhz for multi-ratio impedance transformers (baluns/ununs). See Mix Selection for other applications.
For extra large cables use the FB400-31 which has an inside diameter of 3 inches (76mm).
Frequency Range Comparison Chart
(FB56-xx size)
Multi-turn Common Mode Choking Impedance Increase Example (FB56-43)
Ferrite Bead relative size comparison
Left to right sizes: FB56 (ID = .25″), FB102 (ID=.505″), FB103 (ID=.77″)
SLIP ON Sizes for Heliax and Coax Cable
Cascaded Common Mode Chokes/Line Isolators/1:1 Baluns
 RG58 4 turns on 2 FB102-31 for 2000 ohms choking impedance |
 RG58 12 turns on FT240-43 for 4000-6000 ohms choking impedance |
Handy Wire Size reference for ferrite bead sizes needed
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Connector already on cable? See Snap On Ferrite Beads for convenient installation on cables with connector already installed.