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Old February 18th 06, 01:51 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Ken C
 
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Default Aux Antenna for Wlakman FM radio?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:27:04 GMT, "SignalFerret"
wrote:

The shield on the headphone cable is used as the antenna for such devices.
As for matching, how good of a match can a headphone cable be? Inside most
radios the connection is a single cap, in the pF range, between the jack and
the RF front end.


Hmm. Well, the shield on the shielded stereo cable between the player
and the helmet sound module might pick up some interference from the
motorcycle's electrics. What components would you suggest that I
install on that cable to filter that out? Basically, I would want to
filter out everything that is not audio frequency (20 Hz - 20 kHz) or
between 88-108 MHz.

The player headphones have a main cable that is 29" long before
splitting to each headphobne. This is 1/4 wave for FM BCB. I could,
as you suggest, splice in a 29" wire at the player end of the cable.

Ken KC2JDY