• psud@aussie.zone
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah, if the cable impedance is small enough that you can still get the volume you need it doesn’t matter

    The comment above is informed by radio electronics - in 1980s Australia had TV on low enough frequency that we used balanced wires (two parallel conductors, like speaker wires) for best interference rejection, with opposite voltage in each conductor and interfering signal will affect both conductor equally and opposite, cancelling the interfering signal (we also needed a “balun” on the antenna to match between the balanced wires and the unbalanced antenna)

    Now every antenna you see on roofs and wifi devices connect with coax cables and connectors which are impedance matched to the antennas because impedance really really matters at microwave frequencies, those cables need shielding as they can’t reject interference in the way balanced cables can