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January 5th 08, 05:44 PM
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WHY - Bury Your Shortwave Radio Listening (SWL) Antenna's CoaxCableFeed-in-Line ?
On Jan 5, 9:42*am, RHF wrote:
On Jan 5, 9:20*am, dxAce wrote: Billy Burpelson wrote: RHF wrote: FWIW - Burying the Coax Cable is simply one of the many Synergistic Elements that goes into making a Low Noise Shortwave Radio Listening (SWL) Antenna -a-la- John Doty Three Rec.Radio.Shortwave Messages to Read -by- John Doty http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...bc6a2bf8acc12d Well, "John Doty" in the reference above says: Any *unshielded* [my emphasis added] conductor in your antenna/ground system is capable of picking up noise: the antenna, the "lead-in" wire... First of all, isn't the "lead-in wire" (coaxial cable in this discussion) -shielded- ? So according to his -own- statement, coax shouldn't have to be buried, at least from a noise mitigation viewpoint. |
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