[Milsurplus] Placing of loading coil in MF transmitter

David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Sat Oct 26 23:15:28 EDT 2019


On 10/26/2019 5:54 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> The antenna of course uses a loading coil; this is usually placed in 
> the antenna lead itself. The article lists the
>
> results of trying this with the loading coil inductance moving into 
> the ground lead instead. With the final test
>
> having ALL the loading inductance in the ground and zero in the actual 
> antenna lead,
>
One might wish to consider that, assuming an unbalanced output as most 
of this gear has,
doing this places one's equipment above RF earth ground.
If one has more than one radio in the location, this might make for some 
interesting and
unexpected effects.

D.S.




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