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Old December 12th 08, 01:56 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?

SC Dxing wrote:
After a week of owning the Grundig G6, so far the best antenna
arrangement for me is simply running a speaker wire along the ground
about 70 feet in my backyard. The Slinky antenna didn't work out well,
running a wire on the top of my house gave me more inference (plus
overloading), and the whip antenna isn't good on weaker signals. I've
heard that a CB antenna does well on the higher freqs on SW (15mhz and
above), if I can get one cheap, I'll try to hook that up on my roof.

My question is, what do you use for an antenna to listen to shortwave?


Alpha Delta DX-B Half Sloper on 44' top-loaded steel mast.