[ARC5] Phantom Antenna A-61-A (#7777)

Michael Hanz aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org
Fri Apr 8 09:56:19 EDT 2016


Not in the ARC-5 manual as far as I recall, but it *is* in one of the 
SCR-274N manuals (T.O. 12R2-3SCR274-2), shown below:

73,
Mike  KC4TOS

On 4/8/2016 9:09 AM, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
> I believe 100pf is correct.If I'm not mistaken, the ARC5 manual has a 
> schematic of the phantom antenna if you want to be sure.
>
>
> On Friday, April 8, 2016 2:04 AM, "robinson at tuberadio.com" 
> <robinson at tuberadio.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> My A-61-A Phantom antenna has been got at.
>
> It did not seem to work correctly, so I opened it up,
> and found it had been converted to 50 ohms.
> The series resistor had been rewired for 20 ohms.
> It is just several 2 ohm resistors in series/parallel
> so it was easy  to put it back to the original 5 ohms.
>
> There are 2 clips which had a 30 ohm resistor clipped in.
> It was removed.
> What is the capacitor that goes in here?
> I assume is it a 100 pf vacumn capacitor
> similar to the 50 pf in the antenna relay.
> The 50 pf is too short (3.35 inches long).
> It seems to need a 4.5 inch long capacitor,
> of 100 pf.
>
> Is this reasoning correct?
>
> Regards
> Ray
>
>
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