[Lowfer] NC

[Peter Barick]

>>> ashlockw@hotmail.com 11/21/02 11:51AM >>>
>The experiment for tonight..
>(BTW, ... just a 20ft #12 wire looped over top of a 50ft high limb

>I remembered that Bill B ... had an article in the Lowdown some time
back about
>matching different lengths of 'longwire' receiving antennas to a coax
line using a
>stepdown transformer.

>he showed that a 4 to 1 ratio improves the signal approximately 8X
over
>a direct connection to the line.

>Bill A
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Interesting. So, Bill, given you are using a greater ratio but how many
turns are used on the coax side?

Also, what is the basis of orientation when using "primary" and
"secondary" for windings? Is it that pri. is input and sec. is output
w.r.t. to a given circuit?

Tnx, Peter