I understand why you feel that way Mike, but it is still possible to have a
good internal antenna. I think that the goal was to make this radio as
cheaply as possible (not a bad thing in itself). I will end up picking up
one of them as a fun to play with "toy". Right now, the Grundig 3400 is my
current "toy", but moods change from time to time.
I am waiting for them to come out with an active antenna for this model.
Part of the plan with some of these radios seems to be the money that can be
made on the "add-ons". Still, it would be interesting to see the schematic
(ha! that will be the day!)

Pete

"mike maghakian" wrote in message
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in that case, I would rather have no antenna than a bad one !


thanks for the lesson !



"Pete KE9OA" wrote in message
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No, it doesn't make sense. If the radio is in portable form, I believe it
should have an internal ferrite antenna. My guess is that the designers
didn't want to go through the effort to provide the required shielding in
order to make this possible.
I have built several MW receivers and I know that you really need to
shield and decouple the control circuitry in order to not have harmonics
of the clock, broadband noise, etc from being picked up by the loopstick
antenna. You need to have worst case radiation of less than .2uV to make
the receiver usable. I've been there, done that.

Pete

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I never went to any kind of radio school,so I dont know.How about this
"logic"? World turning back on American brands.Article is at
www.worldnetdaily.com If that radio was an American brand name
radio,would it sell elsewhere around the World?
cuhulin