Yeah !
But the blinking NE-2 during a thunderstorm is kinda entertaining!

(I had the same brain fart) ;)

it seemed like the simple loading of the antenna thru the "Balun"
caused noise to drop by 50% and my station count at least doubled
(but I still cant get New Zealand---I need my sleeeep!)

I tested the concept first with a 300/75 tv-cable balun

Yodar


-=jd=- wrote:


That's the method I used with the end-fed random. I had built a static
bleeder to go with it, which was just silly. I experienced a mental vapor-
lock and didn't recognize that the xformer provided a direct DC path to
ground on it's own. It could have been that I just wanted to build
something - idle hands and all...