{"id":23306,"date":"2017-01-10T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23306"},"modified":"2017-01-09T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T23:22:15","slug":"why-good-antennas-need-to-be-fed-with-good-coax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/why-good-antennas-need-to-be-fed-with-good-coax\/","title":{"rendered":"Why good antennas need to be fed with good coax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dennis Walter, of Bonito Radio in Germany<\/a>, has just posted an excellent article on his blog regarding the importance of quality coaxial cable to fight local radio interference.<\/p>\n

Click here to read his post, “Why even good antennas need good Coax cable.”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Walter, of Bonito Radio in Germany, has just posted an excellent article on his blog regarding the importance of quality coaxial cable to fight local radio interference. Click here to read his post, “Why even good antennas need good Coax cable.”  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,3],"tags":[666,5194,5811,1997,4089],"class_list":["post-23306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","tag-bonito","tag-coax","tag-coaxial-cable","tag-dennis-walter","tag-qrm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-63U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23472,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/southgate-arc-what-is-a-balun-and-how-to-make-one-cheaply\/","url_meta":{"origin":23306,"position":0},"title":"Southgate ARC: What Is a Balun and How to Make One Cheaply","author":"Thomas","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) Ham Radio - What Is a Balun and How to Make One Cheaply A Balun is a transformer which allows coaxial cable, which is an unbalanced lead to be connected to a balanced load, for example a resonant aerial. 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