[Boatanchors] Crystals and Coax

[Keith Densmore]

Greetings to all,
I've been off list for awhile, its good to be back!

I have built up an external crystal pak to extend shortwave frequency 
coverage to my beloved Drake-2B.

But (there is always a but), using coax, even the thin stuff kills the 
crystal signal to the Drake's oscillator. In other words, if crystal X is 
plugged into a crystal socket in the Drake, no problem. But using the 
crystal outside the receiver, even with less than a foot of coax seems to 
kill its output.

Anyone know a solution?  special coax? Some kind of coil to tune out the 
reactance in the coax?

Any ideas?
Thanks all, 73,
Keith, ve3ts 


 
 
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