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Old October 2nd 06, 06:17 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Using The Right Matching Transfomer At Both Ends Of The Coax Cable [Was : Antenna Question]


- Unrevealed Source wrote:
- Thanks David, but the balun matches the high-impedance longwire
- to the low-impedance antenna input. Now I'm connecting to a high-
- impedance input, but want to achieve the same level of shielding.

US,

Using the Right Matching Transfomer at Both Ends of the Coax Cable :
[ When using the Radio / Receiver's HI-Z Terminals ]

1 - Long Wire Antenna-to-Coax use a 9:1 Step-Down-Transformer.

2 - Coax-to-Receiver-HI-Z-Terminals use a 1:4 Step-Up-Transformer.

yes it is that simple - iane ~ RHF