[Lowfer] RE: Worthwhile going to Shielded loop?

[Alberto di Bene]

"Stewart Nelson" <sn@scgroup.com> wrote:

> Please don't laugh, but my receive loop, ~1.6 meters square, is
> connected to the shack via (unshielded) cat-5 cable.
> The loop and preamp are balanced, so there is a natural differential
> output that drives one cable pair.  
> [...]

Hi Stewart,
   no laughs at all on this side, on the contrary, I like the idea 
of using UTP cable instead of coax.... how many meters do you have ?
In my case I would need at least 25 meters (abt 82 feet). Do you think
they are too many ? At these frequencies the transmission line effect
is inexistant, only the capacitance enters into play. And frankly I
don't know how many pF/meter does each couple of the UTP cable have.

73  Alberto  I2PHD