Shortwavewave
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Well Im not as experenced as all you you guys here, and by no means am I a professional.
You can either take this info, or not but im here to tell you what IVE SEEN
Photos Shown Below
But some will say they have swarn by this and, others disagree, its about 50/50
An HF Balun/or transformer(whatever you want to call it) I call it the "Noise Eater"
Combined with a 100ft Loop, 25ft on each side
I have read alot of information on baluns, most of which I didnt understand, so I figured id try to build one, or more like a switching balun, the results in my book are GREAT, I personally dont think I will ever need another antenna again, untill i can build a better one/or get some land(1-2acres)
Well after looking around the internet, I seen a picture with this switching balun/transformer I dont remember what site, and i promise i did not copy his/or her work
A home theater amplifer I had blew a few weeks back and I kept it, I though maybe it was usefull or Fixable, well my wife bought me a new one, so I pulled the broke one apart to see if i could get any parts off it,
Sure nuff' there was a Ferrtie(please dont ask which size because i dont know)
So I ran to radio shack bought some Magnetic wire, and a 6point switch
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...032058.2032230.2032278&pg=2&parentPage=family
Used an older box i had, to house the balun inside
I just started turning wire and used 6 different wires two i used a 10k ohm resister one was a bit longer on the wire then the other, and 2 i used a bigger gauge wire, and two others a extreamly small wire, you might have seen this wire from radio shack
so I soldered the wire in a cross path on the switch, because of the loop i am using, and used a Coax comeing from the middle of the switch, and made about 26 turns from the radios coax(input).
Well THis thing is GREAT, a pure 150ft longwire picks up more noise than the signal, I tryed this from, .3mhz to 18mhz and from there on it pretty much becomes deaf/or useless
But Im not here to prove anyone wrong, or bragg, I just thought id show my experence
and some of you make think its some thrown together garbage, Well IM happy with it
Any question feel free to ask, and or maybe some improvements
THank you All
You can either take this info, or not but im here to tell you what IVE SEEN
Photos Shown Below
But some will say they have swarn by this and, others disagree, its about 50/50
An HF Balun/or transformer(whatever you want to call it) I call it the "Noise Eater"
Combined with a 100ft Loop, 25ft on each side
I have read alot of information on baluns, most of which I didnt understand, so I figured id try to build one, or more like a switching balun, the results in my book are GREAT, I personally dont think I will ever need another antenna again, untill i can build a better one/or get some land(1-2acres)
Well after looking around the internet, I seen a picture with this switching balun/transformer I dont remember what site, and i promise i did not copy his/or her work
A home theater amplifer I had blew a few weeks back and I kept it, I though maybe it was usefull or Fixable, well my wife bought me a new one, so I pulled the broke one apart to see if i could get any parts off it,
Sure nuff' there was a Ferrtie(please dont ask which size because i dont know)
So I ran to radio shack bought some Magnetic wire, and a 6point switch
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...032058.2032230.2032278&pg=2&parentPage=family
Used an older box i had, to house the balun inside
I just started turning wire and used 6 different wires two i used a 10k ohm resister one was a bit longer on the wire then the other, and 2 i used a bigger gauge wire, and two others a extreamly small wire, you might have seen this wire from radio shack
so I soldered the wire in a cross path on the switch, because of the loop i am using, and used a Coax comeing from the middle of the switch, and made about 26 turns from the radios coax(input).
Well THis thing is GREAT, a pure 150ft longwire picks up more noise than the signal, I tryed this from, .3mhz to 18mhz and from there on it pretty much becomes deaf/or useless
But Im not here to prove anyone wrong, or bragg, I just thought id show my experence
and some of you make think its some thrown together garbage, Well IM happy with it
Any question feel free to ask, and or maybe some improvements
THank you All
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