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Old January 19th 11, 10:24 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Five Basic Steps to Better Shortwave Radio Listening [SWL]

On 01/19/2011 12:46 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:


But mix products are difficult to track down, let alone eliminate.
You'll need to find, and isolate the point at which rectification is
taking place, and that could be ANYWHERE...wherever metal components in
any structure touch, you can get rectification, which will product mix
products from the environmental RF. It took me a couple of years to
finally track down and eliminate the mix products being generated on my
property. Padding down the antenna input also helped.

You really ARE in the Little Big Horn for noise and interference.


A 20 dB pad will help the swamping. Have you tried an MFJ-956 preselector?