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[TenTec] Spurs from Omni 6 aux antenna input

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Subject: [TenTec] Spurs from Omni 6 aux antenna input
From: rudder@gulfcoast.net (M. Clark)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:56:08 -0500
Intermod occuring between the jack and the antenna selector switch, being
radiated by the beverage, and picked up by the main antenna?  Is there a
bad (perhaps oxidized) connection or contact in there?  Just a thought.

73, Malcolm WX4YZ

>Thanks very much for the flurry of responses I got. 
>Seems that the common wisdom is to reject the BCB
>interference with a T section tuner or a BCB trap on
>the Beverage feed.
>
>I'm curious though - these spurs come through even
>when the aux antenna isn't even selected.  I'm
>listening with the main (not aux) antenna selected and
>the spurs appear with the Beverage plugged in to the
>aux jack, and disappear with the Beverage unplugged. 
>And I'm talking a full S7 spur on 3510Khz.  
>
>If it's simply sigs coming in through the Beverage,
>shouldn't the main/aux switch cut them off?
>


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