Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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 k5qwg |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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 k5qwg 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/in...tPage= search |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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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 k5qwg 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. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:06:28 GMT, Telamon
wrote: 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. How do you know? What is the low frequency limiting component? |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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David wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:06:28 GMT, Telamon wrote: 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/in...2&cp=&sr=1&ori gkw=matching+transformer&kw=matching+transformer&p arentPage=search Those don't work well below 10 MHz. 15 MHz and higher they are OK. How do you know? I tested them. What is the low frequency limiting component? I didn't go as far as that. This unit is made of a ferrite core and a couple of very small value capacitors. I would guess the core was the problem. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:03:04 GMT, Telamon
wrote: In article , David wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:06:28 GMT, Telamon wrote: 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/in...2&cp=&sr=1&ori gkw=matching+transformer&kw=matching+transformer&p arentPage=search Those don't work well below 10 MHz. 15 MHz and higher they are OK. How do you know? I tested them. What is the low frequency limiting component? I didn't go as far as that. This unit is made of a ferrite core and a couple of very small value capacitors. I would guess the core was the problem. I've reverse engineered a bunch of them. The ones with caps are very rare. |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
On Jan 26, 6:11 am, David wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:03:04 GMT, Telamon wrote: In article , David wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:06:28 GMT, Telamon wrote: 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/in...103912&cp=&sr=... gkw=matching+transformer&kw=matching+transformer&p arentPage=search Those don't work well below 10 MHz. 15 MHz and higher they are OK. How do you know? I tested them. What is the low frequency limiting component? - - I didn't go as far as that. - - This unit is made of a ferrite core and - - a couple of very small value capacitors. - - I would guess the core was the problem. - - I've reverse engineered a bunch of them. - The ones with caps are very rare. Offhand - I can only come up with two reasons to put Capacitors in-side a Matching Transformer : 1 - To make it [Narrow] Band Specific {Tuned} 2 - To make it [Wide] Band Rejection {High -or- Low} I would suspect that any TV type Matching Transformer that had Capacitors in-side it would be designed to have them act as part of a Low Band Rejection Filter for the AM/MW {Shortwave} Band and 'pass' only the Higher VHF and UHF TV Bands. somebody educate me please ~ RHF |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
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 k5qwg 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. Google "sw balun" and something like Sherwood Engineering. They build nice stuff and little $$ delivered, about $12.00 I believe, their design seemed to work better than the one's I made from various diagrams on the web........... |
Long wire to SO-239 50 ohm?
In article ,
David wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:03:04 GMT, Telamon wrote: In article , David wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:06:28 GMT, Telamon wrote: 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/in...3912&cp=&sr=1& ori gkw=matching+transformer&kw=matching+transformer&p arentPage=search Those don't work well below 10 MHz. 15 MHz and higher they are OK. How do you know? I tested them. What is the low frequency limiting component? I didn't go as far as that. This unit is made of a ferrite core and a couple of very small value capacitors. I would guess the core was the problem. I've reverse engineered a bunch of them. The ones with caps are very rare. The one you referenced has the capacitors. I would go with another model. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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