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RE: Positive Ground Car Stereo

Subject: RE: Positive Ground Car Stereo
From: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:51:08 -0700
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> P.S. back about 1971 when I had my 65 MG (positive ground) I mounted my
> negative ground radio to a piece of masonite.  It worked well except that
> the discontinuity of the antenna shield (you can't just plug it in our you
> short it all out) destroyed any semblance of the tuned circuit it was
> supposed to be and reception was poor.

Gee, weren't capacitors invented back then ?  A nice 0.1 uf mica cap is just
about a direct connection at RF frequencies, but an open circuit at DC ...

Randall




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