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old tv antenna good for sw?
its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down
the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? |
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"DanielLAlvarez" wrote in message ... | its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down | the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do | serious damage? My advice would be to give it a shot. I've used old 300 ohm downlead wire (which was just sort of "hanging" from a 70 - foot tower), fed into my old Yaesu FRG-7 with excellent results! 73, -- Steve Lawrence KAØPMD Burnsville, Minnesota "If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up." - Anonymous --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.784 / Virus Database: 530 - Release Date: 10/27/04 |
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It'll be better than nothing but it's designed for vhf/uhf...way too small for
hf...good luck.. Steve knwd ts4fity 80 meter full wave loop its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? |
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Remember that the antenna is horizontally polarized. If you get good
results then leave it be. If you want better reception then turn the antenna 90 degrees for vertical polarization which is what all commercial vhf and up communications is. Good Luck "DanielLAlvarez" wrote in message ... its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? |
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dennis wrote:
Remember that the antenna is horizontally polarized. I don't know if the polarization makes much difference. There was talk about that here some years ago. I don't remember the details, but the distances the signal travels had something to do with it. The propagation bounces diminish the effect? mike |
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dennis wrote:
Remember that the antenna is horizontally polarized. If you get good results then leave it be. If you want better reception then turn the antenna 90 degrees for vertical polarization which is what all commercial vhf and up communications is. I'm not so sure it's horizontally polarized for shortwave! (in any case the polarization of shortwave signals tends to be rather indeterminate after bouncing around in the ionosphere) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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DanielLAlvarez wrote:
its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? It won't do any damage. It won't be the most effective shortwave antenna in the world but it might be better than the built-in antenna on your radio. Try it! -- Try connecting the inner conductor and the outer conductor of the feedline together, and connecting *both* to the center conductor of the antenna jack on the receiver. It's likely to pick up a lot more signal - though it's also likely to pick up a lot more noise. If the signal increases more than the noise then you're in businessgrin. -- If you have a "booster" on the TV antenna, you'll need to remove it before the antenna will do much good on SW. However, if you tie the inner and outer conductors of the feedline together it might still work well with the booster in place. (you should remove the booster anyway. Sometimes unused boosters will "oscillate", radiating a strong signal that interferes with other people's TVs) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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"dennis" ) writes: Remember that the antenna is horizontally polarized. If you get good results then leave it be. If you want better reception then turn the antenna 90 degrees for vertical polarization which is what all commercial vhf and up communications is. Good Luck That's not going to have any relevance, since the antenna is way too small at shortwave. The only way it's going to be useful is as a random length of wire, including the feed cable, and the short (for shortwave) lenghts of wire that are "horizontally polarized" won't have one bit of impact. Micahel "DanielLAlvarez" wrote in message ... its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took down the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? |
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its just up there on the side of the house... i have cable and never took
down the antenna... can i just plug the receiver into the wall jack or will i do serious damage? Depending on the quality of the TV antenna it may be better than you think. On some antennas the elements are just straight wires, but on some antennas they are wires that are bent back over themselves. You can unbend those wires and make the elements twice as long as they were. |
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