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- Yes - Basically the 300 Ohm to 75 Ohm
-TV type Matching Transformer is a Balun. - - iane ~ RHF And... yes some Shortwave Listeners (SWLs) have made a very low cost and basic Shortwave Listening (SWL) Antenna from TV type Parts : 1 - Wire Antenna Element - Using 300 Ohm Twin Lead. Configured as {Shaped Like} : * Dipole Antenna with Two Equal 50% / 50% Arms * Windom Antenna with a Long 62% Arm and Short 38% Arm. * Loop Antenna and wired as either a Series Two Turn Loop -or- a Parallel Two {Twin} Wire Loop. * Horizontal {Flat} Antenna * Inverted "L" Antenna with an Up-Leg 33% and Out-Arm 67% - - - All of these Antennas are for the most part built to fill the Avaliable Space and thus are simply Random Wire Antennas. 2 - Balun - Using a 300 Ohm to 75 Ohm TV type Matching Transformer. 3 - Feed-in-Line - Using 75 Ohm Coax Cable with "F" Connectors as the Antenna's feed-in-line. 4 - Using an "F" Connector to PL-259 Plug Adapter to connect the 75 Ohm Coax Cable to the Shortwave Radio's SO-239 Jack. -or- Using a second TV type 75 Ohm to 300 Ohm Matching Transformer to connect the 75 Ohm Coax Cable to the Shortwave Radio's Twin {HI-Z} Terminals. yes it is that simple - iane ~ RHF |
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