RadioBanter - View Single Post - LF Engineering H-800 antenna

February 7th 06, 01:02 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
The LF looks like an amplified whip. I seriously doubt it would be in
the Wellbrook league. Those amplified whip are really noisy, especially
at lower frequencies.

Maybe in the Mojave you can get away with an amplified whip.

The trick with a whip is putting it in a low noise location.

My random wire at home is at least 225 feet away from any source of rfi.
An H800 or H900 would work fine back there.

I use an active whip for camping trips and vacations - largely because
they're easy to transport and set up. The one I'm using now is a 3
meter whip that folds like a tent pole with an impedance matching
transformer, and a milspec Avantek low noise high gain amp.

Obviously it's easy to find a quiet spot for an antenna when you're in
the woods.

Fortunately, it's also easy for me to set up an antenna in a low noise
location at the three places I tend to go for vacations and weekend
getaways - and they're good places for swl - perhaps because they're all
on or very near water.