On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:04:00 -0600, "Dave" wrote:

Is there a fairly quick answer to the question of what is involved with
matching an RF amplifier to a whip antenna? I have built an active, tunable
antenna to assist my shortwave receiver, and it works wonderfully on the
110' random-wire antenna up on the roof, but only picks up the strong
stations with the whip. Those that it picks up come in great, but there are
others that it is able to detect but not lock on to and make intelligable,
IE BBC Africa, 7160 kHz around 0400/0500 UTC (and I am on the Gulf Coast of
Texas).

Just wondering,

Thanks for any feedback or input.

Dave


is the whip some sort of reduced size antenna?

The smaller an antenna is, the worse is the performance.

w.