[Lowfer] 1704khz Last Night

[Bill Ashlock]

>Might be better to stick with capacitors for coupling, and skip the
>transformer at this frequency.
>John A.

Yah, I'll certainly give the capacitor coupling approach a good test 
tonight. Looks like the best way to do this, at least according to the ARRL 
Antenna Book, is to split the capacitor, giving a balanced feed to the loop. 
The use of a small coupling link is another popular way to handle this. One 
difference in the Medfer application, from typical Ham applications, 
however, is the higher load resistance seen by the output of the final: 180 
ohms for 0.1w, if a 12 volt Vcc is used.   P = Vcc sq/(8xRL)  The link may 
not provide this high of a impedance transformation.

Neat stuff!

Bill A

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