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Re: Topband: Anyone with experience using CAT6 as feed line.

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Subject: Re: Topband: Anyone with experience using CAT6 as feed line.
From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 17:03:54 -0400
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Hi,

What if you come all four twisted pairs into a single pair?

I can't try this on my postage stamp lot because no reasonable beverage will fit.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 5/17/20 4:19 PM, Mikek wrote:
  Did a first test on a BOG, I noted it didn't have a f/b ratio.
  Then I noted I connected the wrong pair to the radio.
  That means the twisted pair is picking up signal.
I terminated it hoping that would quiet it, It didn't.
  I corrected the wiring error, But the feed line pickup
makes the BOG useless.

On a previous BOG I used #18 twisted speaker wire and it
picked up very little RF when connected the the radio.


   Do I need to do anything with the unused pairs,
that would help?

  Any thoughts on how to prevent RF pickup by the feed line?

                                Mikek KF4ITA
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