Love2camp5 wrote:

Now guys, remember you are talking to a lady here - so if I want to make my own
indoor wire antenna, I have to sound intelligent enough that the creeps at our
Radio Shack don't mock me!

Okay, I do know what an alligator clip is - so I should get two of those that I
can just wrap the wire onto, and not have to solder anything.

Then I just need the wire - specifically what wire do I ask the RS guy for?

Then I would just clip one end onto the whip antenna and the other end up onto
a curtain edge or something?

If I've got it right, it sounds pretty easy.

Thanks,
Linda

If your using a receiver with a whip antenna, get about 20-ft of
*insulated* wire (size range 16 to 22 gauge) and wrap about ten turns of
the wire around the whip. The whip doesn't have to be fully extended,
just enough to wrap the wire around it. Run the wire around the room,
over the tops of the window frames. Use thumb tacks to hold it in place.
Wrapping the wire around the whip, instead of using an alligator clip
for a direct connection, will help to prevent signal overloading. The
symptom of overloading is hearing many spurious signals from strong
stations, repeated all over the bands where they don't belong. It
doesn't damage the radio but it's really annoying.


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