Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Ed Stallman
Tnx Tree , I plan to do just that using my AIM 4170 . May be a day or so, have suitcase company on the way Ed N5DG On 9/28/2016 1:09 PM, Tree wrote: One easy thing you can do to test your transformer is to put a 75 ohm resistor on the proper side - and then use an SWR meter to measure the im

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Tree
One easy thing you can do to test your transformer is to put a 75 ohm resistor on the proper side - and then use an SWR meter to measure the impedance on the 50 ohm side. I like to also see how high in frequency I can go before the SWR starts to rise. Most of the transformers I wind typically wor

Topband: feedline choke distance from Beverage

2016-09-28 Thread Dick Green WC1M
Hi all, I have a DXE feedline choke that’s been sitting in my parts box for years and I thought I’d install it on my Beverage feedline. The antenna is about 530-feet long, dual wire, dual direction. I use it mostly on 160 and 80, though it works to some extent on 40 and 20. I’m not clear on

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Ed Stallman
Thanks all for your wisdom . Some say not needed and some say to use the 75 / 50 transformer . I figure it's easy enuf to do . So now I'll try it and see for my self . Thanks again, Ed N5DG On 9/27/2016 10:35 PM, Ed Stallman wrote: My receive antenna is 75 Ohm RG6 connected to my radio and I

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Wes Stewart
Unless the coax is acting as a delay line, in which case the phase shift is only as predicted when the line is properly terminated, the mismatch is trivial. The radio probably isn't a good match anyway. On 9/28/2016 7:47 AM, Tree wrote: I suppose I need to ask if worrying about impedance at th

Re: Topband: YC0LOW SK

2016-09-28 Thread Greg - ZL3IX
Very sad news, indeed. When I first became interested in 160m as ZS5K back in 1997, Jo was my first ever contact on the band. He put a cracking signal into Durban. Condolences to Jo's family. 73, Greg ZL3IX (ex ZS5K) On 2016-09-29 05:02 a.m., Preston Smith wrote: Very sad news, following fro

Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Actually there is a reason or two to match the feedline impedances when using these active antennas. There are amplifiers in most of these systems that rely on their matched impedances to produce their best IMD capability. It may not matter in some areas of the world but in others with high

Topband: YC0LOW SK

2016-09-28 Thread Preston Smith
Very sad news, following from Joz, YD1JZ. Pres/N6SS -Original Message- From: yd1jz@gmail.com Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:22:26 +0700 To: n...@inbox.com Subject: YC0LOW SK Hello OM Pres, Hope you are doing fine.  Would like to inform that our dear friend OM Jo - YC0LOW has passed away

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Chortek, Robert L.
To Tree's point: have the Hi-Z Triangular Array and use it with the 75/50 transformer. After using it for a year or so, and just for curiosity sake I pulled out the transformer and hooked the 75 ohm cable directly to the receiver input. I went back and forth multiple times and my ears never n

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread donovanf
Hi Grant, Regarding your comment about the isolation transformer properties of a transformer wound on a binocular core (or on a toroidal core), their common mode choking performance is very inferior to common mode chokes such as those documented by K9YC. http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-H

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Tree
I suppose I need to ask if worrying about impedance at this point in the system is really worth the trouble. Once signals have gone through one or two stages of amplification - would a loss of a db or so in signal strength really matter? Tree N6TR On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Lee STRAHAN wr

Re: Topband: 75 ohm RG6 to 50 Ohm radio

2016-09-28 Thread Grant Saviers
One thing that W8JI clarified for me in winding binocular cores is what is a "turn". Normally, a wire thru a toroid hole is a "turn". A binocular core is two toroids in a single piece of ferrite. Tom proposed calling a wire in one side of a binocular core a "pass" and thru both sides a "turn"