Thread: Balun works
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Old 8th Aug 2014, 12:08 am   #8
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Default Re: Balun works

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Originally Posted by G8HQP Dave View Post
However, a balun can greatly reduce interference pickup on the coax outer. How important this is will depend on how electrically noisy is your environment. For FM reception you may notice a small reduction in background noise on a decent transmission (e.g. Radio 3) - other stations may never have long enough silences to hear!
I was under the impression that a balun at the aerial itself also helped reduce noise pickup on the coax outer. In the USA, TV and FM aerials were usually supplied with a balun of the kind pictured. But from the various texts on the topic, one has the impression that in the UK it was common practice to connect coax (unbalanced) direct to nominally balanced aerials. Now that it's Proms season, absolutely the best possible reception of R3 would seem to be desirable. (And here in NZ we are lucky as RNZ Concert FM will run 66 Proms programmes this year.)

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