[TenTec] RE: broadcast interference and antenna choice

[Webster D. Williams]

> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:17:13 -0700
> From: Clark Savage Turner WA3JPG <turner@safety.ics.uci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Transmatches/Tuners/Etc.

> That is just what I need in most cases.  I have very, 
> very strong stations on the AM BC band, and other hams 
> local to me.  I have a 500 foot horizontal loop up in 
> the trees at 50 feet.  Most every radio I put on there 
> dies under the RF that comes off the coax. Even Kenwood 
> 940's and the OMNI VI crunch to some extent.

So THAT'S why I'm hearing broadcast stations on my Ten Tec 
6m transverter! I have it hooked to a 75m full-size delta 
loop. I thought I had adjusted something wrong. Only thing 
was, when I changed antennas (to my triband beam) the 
interference went away...I'm learning more! Thanks, Web
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