SDRplay 2 & existing long wire antenna?

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EastPier
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SDRplay 2 & existing long wire antenna?

Post by EastPier » Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:41 am

I'm pretty new to this stuff so bear with me. Santa is bringing me the SDRPlay 2.

Q. 1.
I have a 25m grounded long wire antenna which comes into the house via coax and terminates with a 3.5mm plug (which I plug in to the aerial port on my receiver). In order to get the best performance from the SDRPlay 2, will I need to scrap the coax element and connect the long wire directly to the High Impedance (Z) Input? Or should I just get an SMA connector for what I have and go that way?

Q. 2.
I will be mounting a 300ohm ribbon fed inverted-V (doublet) antenna. It's for "receive only", for now. Can the 300ohm ribbon be connected directly to the P & N sockets on the high impedance input?

Many thanks in advance

Adrian
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Re: SDRplay 2 & existing long wire antenna?

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EastPier
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Re: SDRplay 2 & existing long wire antenna?

Post by EastPier » Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:43 pm

Cheer mate, thanks a mil, Just got RSP2 today....
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