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by **alvocad** » Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:44:03

I just puchased on Ebay a beautiful mint condition General Electric US Army
signal corps antenna tuning unit. The question I have for this group is
this. Being relatively new to antenna setups and antiques like this, I was
wondering,
On the top where you hook up the wiring, it says Ant. and below it says
Trans. and then Gnd. Is the Trans. where I would lead in to my receiver?
And where is the best place to put the Gnd. wire?
THX in advance
James

by **Maximu** » Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:56:01

ANT means antenna, TRANS is where the output of the transmitter is connected
GRND is where the ground gets connected. Unless you want to use the antenna
for both transmitting and receiving, you don't need to do anything with the
TRANS connection. So connect the antenna to the ANT terminal. Hope that
helps. Happy DXing :)

Il Dolce Far Niente

Quote:> I just puchased on Ebay a beautiful mint condition General Electric US
Army
> signal corps antenna tuning unit. The question I have for this group is
> this. Being relatively new to antenna setups and antiques like this, I was
> wondering,
> On the top where you hook up the wiring, it says Ant. and below it says
> Trans. and then Gnd. Is the Trans. where I would lead in to my receiver?
> And where is the best place to put the Gnd. wire?
> THX in advance
> James

by CW » Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:37:30

And be aware that, if it is an automatic tuner, it will do nothing. It is a
transmitting tuner. It needs a transmitted signal to tune. It will do
nothing for receive.

> ANT means antenna, TRANS is where the output of the transmitter is
connected
> GRND is where the ground gets connected. Unless you want to use the
antenna
> for both transmitting and receiving, you don't need to do anything with
the
> TRANS connection. So connect the antenna to the ANT terminal. Hope that
> helps. Happy DXing :)

> Il Dolce Far Niente

> > I just puchased on Ebay a beautiful mint condition General Electric US
> Army
> > signal corps antenna tuning unit. The question I have for this group is
> > this. Being relatively new to antenna setups and antiques like this, I
was
> > wondering,
> > On the top where you hook up the wiring, it says Ant. and below it says
> > Trans. and then Gnd. Is the Trans. where I would lead in to my
receiver?
> > And where is the best place to put the Gnd. wire?
> > THX in advance
> > James

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