[R-390] Baluns Caps and Ballasts

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 12:23:32 EDT 2011


FWIW - the Navy's AN/FRD-10 CDAA (Wullenweber, Elephant Cage) systems
ran unbalanced co-ax from the antennas to the multicouplers -and the
multicouplers and RF switches had unbalanced coax outputs to the
receivers.
See RF cabling diagram at
http://www.navy-radio.com/rcvrs/frd10/cdaa-flow.JPG
and more info and manuals at
http://www.navy-radio.com/frd10.htm
cheers,
Nick K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> If indeed the Elephant Cage antenna systems were balanced feed-line, I
> cannot tell from any photos I've seen.  It would make a real difference.
>
> However, the multi-couplers do not appear to have had balanced input.
>


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