Re: [IRCA] BOG question

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

At 17:15 12/4/2009, you wrote:
>Let me ask this again:
>
>I've been toying with the idea of getting 5-600' of wire and hooking it
>to either my old DX-400 or newer S-350 and heading to the soccer fields,
>near work.  I do understand that both radios have built in antennas and
>that it would interject some signals too but at least I could orient the
>radio to compliment the BOG.  I used the DX-400 with a Sanserino loop in
>much the same way.  Both radios have two terminals, which one would I
>put the end of the BOG into (not using coax)?  An old Hallicrafters that
>I had as a kid had a similar A1 / A2 setup and a little metal "blade"
>that would short out A2, if desired.  Would plugging the BOG wire
>directly into one would work and would I need to do a small jumper from
>that one to the other one (A2)?  Thanks.


Not having a DX400 in front of me Dave may make this an inaccurate answer, but isn't "A1" the one you want for an unbalanced antenna, with A2 either being to a ground rod or left floating if all it does is connect to the radio's internal ground?   

The A1/A2 combo that I know is usually matched with another contact that goes to the receiver's ground, and the jumper would be between A2 and the ground connector (not between A1 and A2 as I read you suggesting).    A1/A2 were otherwise used with a dipole or other balanced antenna, and there would be no jumper to the ground in that case.

Hope that helps.

Nick




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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada 

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