[Milsurplus] [ARC5] BC-221 Coupling

[J. Forster]

Certainly, that was the way it's designed.

In my experience E field coupling tends to be kinda funky and unstable,
unless very closely capacitively coupled by wrapping the center conductor
around the antenna.

-John

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> Hello John,
>
> My suspicion is that the BC-221 relied on electric field coupling.
>
> So, insert a T-joint into your coax cable - no need to cut the cable - and
> off the leg of the T, hang a wire, near your BC-221. Also stick a wire
> into the terminal of the BC-221 to act as an antenna.
>
> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
>
>
>
>> J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Much WW II gear used open wire antenna connections, so a BC-221 could
>> just
>> be coupled by being placed nearby. Modern gear generally uses coax.
>>
>> I've not seen any well thought out adapters to couple a BC-221 to coax.
>> Has anybody? I'm not much of a fan of just sticking a small nearby as a
>> coupling means.
>>
>> -John
>>
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