What kind of metal tube? The kind with wheels? I also live in a Farady
cage and can't get much of anything off a whip.



"WShoots1" wrote in message
...
Except on really outstanding days, those antennas are totally
inadequate.

Heck! Even inside the square metal tube I live in I can get much stuff day
and
night, using just the telescoping antennas on all my radios, from the
DX-392
down. And I live near Galveston Bay in SE Texas.

I was beginning to wonder if you lived in one of those magnetic anomolies
where
signals don't go in or out. Those exist all over the US.

Bill, K5BY