[Lowfer] Caps across coax

[Bill Ashlock]

>When he mentioned to them that he would be using
>a longwire antenna fed with coaxial cable they suggested
>adding a .1 MFD capacitor between the shield and ground
>of the coax (at both ends of the run) to help reduce noise
>pickup.
>
>Has anyone ever heard of this practice and does it seem to
>work?

Are you sure you have this worded correctly Les? Or is this a double 
sheilded coax? I'm figuring this isn't suggesting installing the cap between 
shieild and center conductor, right? If so, that would really reduce the 
noise - signal too!

Bill A

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