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38-15 Chairside Antenna
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Well, so I built this for it and it actually works very well. I used 13 turns on a 10" x 10" frame and put a padder capacitor across it. The antenna impedance at 640 kHz turned out to be about 35 k ohms, and the 38-15 chairside measured about 22 k ohms at the same frequency. I called it good and didn't try any further Z match.
Meanwhile, I also discovered abandoned phone cable running horizontally around the outside of the house and right beneath the window behind the chairside. I tapped into that, and now it seems I don't need the tuned loop at all.
Go figure...

Rob

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38-15 Chairside Antenna - by robsradioactive - 09-05-2017, 08:56 AM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by Radioroslyn - 09-05-2017, 11:51 AM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by morzh - 09-05-2017, 01:53 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by robsradioactive - 09-05-2017, 06:53 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by morzh - 09-05-2017, 11:09 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by robsradioactive - 09-06-2017, 08:56 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by morzh - 09-06-2017, 09:20 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by Chris h - 09-07-2017, 11:02 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by robsradioactive - 09-09-2017, 03:45 PM
RE: 38-15 Chairside Antenna - by robsradioactive - 09-11-2017, 11:13 PM



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