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Old January 18th 11, 10:25 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Five Basic Steps to Better Shortwave Radio Listening [SWL]

On 1/18/2011 2:05 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

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OK, understood, but I have always thought (based on what I have read)
that one of these matching transformers, properly deisgned and
grounded, can bleed off some noise to ground. Am I misled?


NO, you are not mislead. They are death on common mode noise. If your
problem is common mode noise they work like a miracle ... the signal to
noise boost the match ain't bad either ...

Regards,
JS