Topband: Need help in winning a Preamp Wager

[Jim Brown]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:36:25 -0500, J A Ritter wrote:

>This is big time... I have a Diet Pepsi at risk in a bet with N4CW:
>
>I say Preamps are best located at the RX antenna feed point, N4CW says
>it makes no difference on 160 if a preamp is at the antenna feed point
>or in the shack.
>
>I really can't afford to loose this wager.  Any and all support comments
>for UCE will be greatly appreciated

>From a noise point of view, it doesn't matter -- there simply isn't enough 
loss at 1.8 MHz. The only reason I can think of that remote mounting would be 
better is if the input of the preamp is at an impedance significantly 
different from that of the cable that comes into the shack -- that is, if it 
has to do any impedance matching. 

Jim Brown K9YC