Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: Antenna Tuners on Receivers Message-ID: <52800034@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 09:20:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.52800034 Posted: Mon Sep 24 09:20:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 06:04:50 EDT References: <239@whuxl.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:whuxl:-23900:trsvax:52800034:000:798 Nf-From: trsvax!mikey Sep 24 08:20:00 1984 Oh oh!! Time for my two cents. (Is that really worth that much?) I have a book on radio theory from National. They go to some great lengths about the front end circuits for their broadcast radio circuits. They claim that there is a certain amount of extra gain that you can get by making the antenna appear as a capacitive load to the radio systems front end. I don't have the book in front of me but if anyone is interested, I'll reference the article and get the National book number. Back to the subject at hand, it applied in the article only to antennas on a large ground plane on receivers with inductively tuned RF sections (i.e. your standard detroit car radio) but I wonder how much of their principles would apply to the case of tuners on receivers? mikey at trsvax (KA5MJQ)