TM,

To put it simply: Every Antenna 'resonates' !

Every "Random Wire Antenna is a Full Wave Length (WL); a Half WL and a
Quarter WL at some frequency. The trick is to make the Random Wire
Antenna more Broad Banded and improve the overall 'reception'
performance across the SWL Bands.

"Actually, a fixed matching transformer can dramatically reduce the
wild swings in antenna efficiency that a coax fed wire antenna
exhibits." - - - John Doty
http://www.anarc.org/naswa/badx/ante..._longwire.html

iane ~ RHF
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= = = Tony Meloche
= = = wrote in message ...
My thanks to all who replied. I had a chance today (rare day off)
to try a few experiemnts of my own, and decided my original 60' random
wire - with the new addition of a coax drop to the antenna terminal,
rather than being end fed by the antenna itself - was my best solution.

Fortunately, I live "out in the country", and have only one close
neighbor - if you want to call 100 yards away "close". Ambient noise is
not as much of a problem for me as it would be for some.

Tony


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