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Old March 8th 06, 08:38 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
David
 
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Default Why Antenna Tuners Aren't Necessarily Useful for Shortwave Listening - Question Shortwave Listening (SWL) Antenna Tuners - Do You Have An Opinion ?

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:27:57 GMT, Bob Miller
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:40:32 GMT, David wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:05:33 GMT, Bob Miller
wrote:

Still, you have that wonderfully sensitive receiver, and your balun
hasn't changed the signal to noise ratio; it's only made everthing
louder. Same argument he's using against antenna tuners :-)

bob
k5qwg

It does help signal:noise. It keeps the antenna away from the house.


And the rest of the noise? Powerlines, atmospheric noise, heterodynes,
etcetera? And do you really think coax keeps manmade noise out?

bob
k5qwg


It keeps the noise I make out of my radio.

 
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