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"Lenny" wrote:

Hello again all. By now, you should be getting tired of my endless
beginners questions. Well, here's another, so get over it! : ) If
you recall, I have an Icom R-75 with all the Kiwa Mods, hooked up to
an Antenna Supermarket Eavesdropper which runs into a Zap Trapper,
then into the radio. Both the radio and antenna are grounded to a
cold water pipe in my basement. I am generally pleased with SW
reception, but, as this is my first SW radio, I'm sure it could be
better. Does anybody have any simple improvements that I can try to
improve reception? I'm kinda limited in my antenna placement as I
only have one tree large enough in my yard to anchor an end of it
to. The other end is anchored to my house. Both ends are anchored
with rope, and then an insulator connected to the antenna. I'm sure I
could pop for a expensive antenna like the Wellbrook, but I don't
wanna spend that much $ now. Whatever suggestions you have, please
keep them simple as I'm not an electrical engineer. My listening
interests are mainly International broadcast and some utility
monitoring.

You have a pretty good radio and antenna.

From either the antenna specifications or general reception on the
bands determine where the antenna is not working as well and put up
another wire antenna to make up for it. If it is the smaller version of
the Eavesdropper then put up a loop or folded dipole for the lower
bands if that interests you.

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Telamon
Ventura, California