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David wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:52:51 -0500, Meat Plow
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:32:51 -0600, Bob Miller Has Frothed:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:12:43 -0500, Meat Plow
wrote:


Anything special needed to make this thing besides the wire and SO-239?

I might want to transmit through this some day using a random wire tuner
but for now it will be used for SWL.

Go ahead and hook it directly to a random wire tuner, and simply tune
for maximum loudness on a given frequency. MFJ makes an inexpensive
tuner for random wires.

bob
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Thanks, would rather get a 10:1 balun for now. Haven't had the time to
google it but there should be some instructions on how to make one myself.


If you use a cable TV Balun you'll get a quick and dirty 4:1
transformer and a marked improvement.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103912&cp=&sr=1&origkw=matchi ng+transformer&kw=matching+transformer&parentPage= search

Those don't work well below 10 MHz. 15 MHz and higher they are OK.

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