Hmmm. Yeah. sigh Point taken. I guess this is just my hobby, and I
really don't have anything better to do (other than housework.) I don't
know what to say. Guess I just have to prove to myself that everything that
can be done has been done, or that it's not worth the effort for the
outcome. sigh again.

I do appreciate all of the feedback, and the patience with my ignorance. I
am trying to make this thing work off of a whip for portability's sake, and
am just not willing to accept defeat yet. May not be much longer though...
It does work great on the external antenna, I just want it to work better
off of the whip.

Thank you, all of you who replied. And thank you, doc, for the final simple
analysis. I don't mean to be stubborn, I just have to try everything to
prove to myself that it is as good as it can be. Sorry. Guess I am
stubborn after all.

The hand-holding is appreciated. Sorry if I frustrated you guys. Thanks
again for your patience.

Dave

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Dave,
Would another 'IF' stage, or filtering, or 'nulling', or whatever you
want to call it, help? Sure. But then you start running into the
'practical' thingy again. It can get sort of complicated deciding
what is 'noise' and what is desired signal. DSP does a lot of that
when told how to do it by the controlling algorithms (or is that 'Al-
Gore-isms'? sorry, I know better, just can't help it). The mainest
problem is the time it takes to do that, it is not instantaneous. And
if you are going to make that controlling algorithm variable, the time
it takes makes things even more time consuming, not to mention
difficult. Keeping in mind that simply making the antenna larger/
longer can do about the same thing at less expense (time/work/$$$),
why not? Easy to do with a recording (sort of), very difficult in
real time. Manually doing all that is almost impossible. How do you
decide what to 'do' before it's too late? There are limits with
today's technology. So, put it off till 'tomorrow', right?
- 'Doc

(all puns intended, even the ones I didn't intend)