Yes, that is an advantage. Everytime someone asks a question about a receive
only antenna on this newsgroup, there are always many responses saying to
just put up a piece of wire and run it strait to your radio. That will work,
assuming that you live out in the middle of nowhere, have no neighbors and
have no electrical appliances. For the rest of us, noise is a consideration
and more thought needs to be put into an antenna system.

"Kees" wrote in message
...

That's indeed what it is:
a very low-noise antenna.

Look at : http://members.home.nl/rita.kees/t2fdmake.html

for my "version ".