[time-nuts] Why a 10MHz sinewave output

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Tue Feb 7 21:30:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:44 -0500
Mike Naruta AA8K <aa8k at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 02/07/2012 03:59 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > while TV and radio uses 75R. (there was once a reason
> > for this, but i don't know it).
> 
> A 4:1 balun takes old 300 ohm twinlead to 75 ohms.

Thanks! This explains half it :-)
Do you know why a 4:1 balun was used?

And do you know why other RF stuff and lab equipment is 50R? 

		Attila Kinali
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