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Old June 1st 07, 02:53 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default External Antenna with insulated wire?

On May 20, 5:36 pm, RedPenguin wrote:
I have a fairly large amount of insulated copper wire, that is solid.
My Sony ICF-7600GR, has an external antenna jack that is just
basically a headphone jack with it's connector. Isn't it possibly just
to put this insulated wire on a 1/8 jack and make fairly ok antenna? I
guess you can't just use any end, I used one from an old pair of
headphones that broke for the heck of it to test and it barely got any
signal in. Am I wrong about using copper wire like this?


Sure, if it is insulated it will make a fine antanna.