Tecsun PL880 Aerial problem weather fax

[plebian99]

I think you need a mono plug for the Tecsun PL880, its tip and sleeve from recollection. Its a terrible connection for for an antenna. I dont know why these manufacturers dont put a proper BNC socket on these radios for external antennas.

The Whip is is high impedance input and when you use the 3.5mm socket it switches to low impedance 50 ohms input. For a random wire it might have been better to clip onto the whip antenna although this is prone to picking up a lot of noise.

When I used the separate antenna input with a random length of wire I always used a 9:1 unun or voltage balun which provides better performance.

[rgleason]

Franziska wrote Weatherfax Beginner Guide, now as PDF or DOC download, on OpenCPN wiki under Supplemental Hardware. Also a link in weatherfax_pi documentation. Thank you Franziska.