Re: [HCDX] Antenna voltage

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, c.foster wrote:

> form the rods to my radio and to the outer braid of the coax.
> the problem i have is that when i attach one end of my multi-meter to the
> ground rods and the other end to the center wire in the coax i get about 2
> to 3 volts ac.

You don't happen to have a Sony 7600G, do you ? ;)

It's possible the receiver is putting a voltage on the line
to "tickle" active antennas. You can get around that by adding
a capacitor between the receiver's input and the center wire
of your coax.

regards,

Rik
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