Dan wrote:

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:04:03 -0400, dxAce wrote:


LP heard at 2100 s/on on 9251 and 6959. Also sked on 5746 and if it was there it
was just at the threshold of hearing, I can't be sure.


Just to be clear, are these AM or SSB? I'm still hearing nothing.
Probably my antenna is not big enough - 50 foot random in the attic.

Dan



My first antenna at this house was a random wire in my attic, and I
thought it was pretty good at first - then I realized RFI from all the
stuff in my house was stronger than many of the signals I wanted to hear.

If your radio has a signal strength meter, and it shows a fairly strong
signal when you aren't tuned to a station, you probably have the same
problem.

If so, the first thing I'd try is adding an impedance matching
transformer, and using coax or twin lead between the radio and the
transformer.

The next step after that would be to get your antenna away from the
house. Noise will go down as a square of the distance - so if you get
your antenna twice as far from devices that cause or wires that carry
RFI, you'll get 1/4 the noise.