Steve = tks 4 that, a very informative and interesting post.

I want to ask the group this:
I had a MFJ-1026 noise canceller when I lived in suburban Joburg.
I tried every sort of antenna combination - verticals, horizontals, whips
and Windom's, but the thing never abated the noise to any appreciable
extent, so I gave up on it after a year of fiddling and experimenting.

Now I have passed it on to a friend who lives in a very noisy suburb of Cape
Town. He did no better than me with it and also gave up on it. Now he has a
Wellbrook ALA1530 which gives him decent results.

So my question is this:
Is the Timewave ANC-4 markedly superior to the MFJ1026?

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John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
RX Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
Drake SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

"Steve" wrote in message
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By this time I've used the ANC-4 enough to know that it's a big help.
Where noise is concerned, it makes much more of a difference for me
than running off batteries, ferrite cores, etc. I'm kicking myself for
not getting one of these sooner. I find that my noise floor usually
drops one or two S-units the instant I turn the ANC-4 on. Adjusting the
controls then can make a huge difference; and at my location it almost
always makes more of a difference than is necessary to compensate for
the 6 dB insertion loss. It especially shines during the day on LSB and
USB.

I've tried it with a lot of different antennas, but I'll be
experimenting with antennas for quite some time, I suspect. I did
eventually get good results using the H-800 active whip. However, where
noise reduction is concerned, I find that I get the best results using
a wire antenna that snakes its way between my house and the neighbor's
house and then back near some power lines. The nulls with the wire
antenna are just as deep as they are with the H-800, but they're a lot
easier to find. These conclusions are pretty tentative, though, as I am
still experimenting and trying out different arrangements.

On the whole, I think the ANC-4 is great and worth every penny if you
have problems with noise. It works as advertised.

Steve