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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
In , on 03/09/04
at 10:59 PM, user said: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? Does the original antenna attach to a connector of some sort? If so, is there any mention of "75" or "300"? If there are two screws and a mention of "300", then you could connect a pair of rabbit ears to those terminals. You will achieve best antenna performance if you pick an antenna that matches your radio's "75" or "300" (the most common choices), However .... One point to consider is that the clock radio performance is marginal at best. If you succeded at properly connecting a good antenna, the radio may be overloaded and misbehave. (there won't be any physical damage, but, overall, you could be worse off than you are now) ----------------------------------------------------------- spam: wordgame:123(abc):14 9 20 5 2 9 18 4 at 22 15 9 3 5 14 5 20 dot 3 15 13 (Barry Mann) [sorry about the puzzle, spammers are ruining my mailbox] ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
In , on 03/09/04
at 10:59 PM, user said: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? Does the original antenna attach to a connector of some sort? If so, is there any mention of "75" or "300"? If there are two screws and a mention of "300", then you could connect a pair of rabbit ears to those terminals. You will achieve best antenna performance if you pick an antenna that matches your radio's "75" or "300" (the most common choices), However .... One point to consider is that the clock radio performance is marginal at best. If you succeded at properly connecting a good antenna, the radio may be overloaded and misbehave. (there won't be any physical damage, but, overall, you could be worse off than you are now) ----------------------------------------------------------- spam: wordgame:123(abc):14 9 20 5 2 9 18 4 at 22 15 9 3 5 14 5 20 dot 3 15 13 (Barry Mann) [sorry about the puzzle, spammers are ruining my mailbox] ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
In , on 03/09/04
at 10:59 PM, user said: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? Does the original antenna attach to a connector of some sort? If so, is there any mention of "75" or "300"? If there are two screws and a mention of "300", then you could connect a pair of rabbit ears to those terminals. You will achieve best antenna performance if you pick an antenna that matches your radio's "75" or "300" (the most common choices), However .... One point to consider is that the clock radio performance is marginal at best. If you succeded at properly connecting a good antenna, the radio may be overloaded and misbehave. (there won't be any physical damage, but, overall, you could be worse off than you are now) ----------------------------------------------------------- spam: wordgame:123(abc):14 9 20 5 2 9 18 4 at 22 15 9 3 5 14 5 20 dot 3 15 13 (Barry Mann) [sorry about the puzzle, spammers are ruining my mailbox] ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
In , on 03/09/04
at 10:59 PM, user said: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? Does the original antenna attach to a connector of some sort? If so, is there any mention of "75" or "300"? If there are two screws and a mention of "300", then you could connect a pair of rabbit ears to those terminals. You will achieve best antenna performance if you pick an antenna that matches your radio's "75" or "300" (the most common choices), However .... One point to consider is that the clock radio performance is marginal at best. If you succeded at properly connecting a good antenna, the radio may be overloaded and misbehave. (there won't be any physical damage, but, overall, you could be worse off than you are now) ----------------------------------------------------------- spam: wordgame:123(abc):14 9 20 5 2 9 18 4 at 22 15 9 3 5 14 5 20 dot 3 15 13 (Barry Mann) [sorry about the puzzle, spammers are ruining my mailbox] ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote:
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote:
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote:
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote:
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote:
Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On 2004-03-10, Gary A Edelstein wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E Thank you very much!!! It is a single wire coming out of the case & I do have a 75 to 300 sitting around somewhere & a dipole wire antenna, unless I had thrown it away when doing some cleaning. p.s. what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On 2004-03-10, Gary A Edelstein wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E Thank you very much!!! It is a single wire coming out of the case & I do have a 75 to 300 sitting around somewhere & a dipole wire antenna, unless I had thrown it away when doing some cleaning. p.s. what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On 2004-03-10, Gary A Edelstein wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E Thank you very much!!! It is a single wire coming out of the case & I do have a 75 to 300 sitting around somewhere & a dipole wire antenna, unless I had thrown it away when doing some cleaning. p.s. what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On 2004-03-10, Gary A Edelstein wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E Thank you very much!!! It is a single wire coming out of the case & I do have a 75 to 300 sitting around somewhere & a dipole wire antenna, unless I had thrown it away when doing some cleaning. p.s. what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On 2004-03-10, Gary A Edelstein wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. Gary E Thank you very much!!! It is a single wire coming out of the case & I do have a 75 to 300 sitting around somewhere & a dipole wire antenna, unless I had thrown it away when doing some cleaning. p.s. what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:30 -0600, Gary A. Edelstein
wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. --- If it's a single wire coming out of the radio I can't imagine why you'd think it's 75 ohms. -- John Fields |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:30 -0600, Gary A. Edelstein
wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. --- If it's a single wire coming out of the radio I can't imagine why you'd think it's 75 ohms. -- John Fields |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:30 -0600, Gary A. Edelstein
wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. --- If it's a single wire coming out of the radio I can't imagine why you'd think it's 75 ohms. -- John Fields |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:30 -0600, Gary A. Edelstein
wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. --- If it's a single wire coming out of the radio I can't imagine why you'd think it's 75 ohms. -- John Fields |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:30 -0600, Gary A. Edelstein
wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:59:31 GMT, user wrote: Possible to convert/translate/connect the single wire "antenna" of my clock radio to a "regular" antenna of any sort? If it's a single wire coming out of the radio and no screw connectors, then it's 75 ohm and you could look at adding a longer wire, hooking up a single rod antenna to it or hooking it to the center of a 75 to 300 ohm transformer (probably a few dollars at Radio Shack) and hooking up rabbit ears to the 300 ohm end of the transformer. --- If it's a single wire coming out of the radio I can't imagine why you'd think it's 75 ohms. -- John Fields |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:14:55 GMT, wrote:
what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. If you just want to add more single wire, then it doesn't matter what size wire you use. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:14:55 GMT, wrote:
what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. If you just want to add more single wire, then it doesn't matter what size wire you use. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:14:55 GMT, wrote:
what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. If you just want to add more single wire, then it doesn't matter what size wire you use. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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"convert" antenna for clock radio?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:14:55 GMT, wrote:
what wire size to splice to the wire antenna? the antenna wire looks very small. If you just want to add more single wire, then it doesn't matter what size wire you use. Gary E |Gary A. Edelstein (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
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