Thread: Sangean ATS-909 external antenna impedance??
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Old December 19th 09, 05:18 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Sangean ATS-909 external antenna impedance??
Dave wrote in news:f119aab9-3597-4cba-ac75-
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On Dec 19, 3:14*pm, Lostgallifreyan wrote:

What I really want to know is whether the ATS-909 will work ok with a
long(ish) wire outside feeding a 50 ohm coax via a 9:1 transformer, or if
that would cause more bother than connecting a wire directly to it and
putting up with local noise picked up from nearby buildings.

just hook it up with the coax even without the transformer and it
should be fine.


Really? Wouldn't that be 'matching' a fairly high impedance in the wire to
the low 50 ohm coax, then risking further loss in unknown input impedance
mismatch? I like the idea though, if I thought it would be that easy I might
have tried it. If it's really ok I'll do it. I haven't got scope for a
really long wire so I do need to try to minimise losses, I imagine..
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