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From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Antenna Tuners on Receivers
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 09:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 09:20:00 1984
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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)