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Michael Black[_2_] · September 22nd 12, 04:56 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, wrote:

On Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:00:16 PM UTC-7, SWL-2010 wrote:
"mcan" wrote in message
ups.com... Dear
DX'ers My receiver is 12 divided Chine made analog radio. I have used
long wire isolated wire antenna from roof to roof aprox 10 meters.
But my antenna have been destroyed by natural affects like wind, snow
etc. Can you help me how I made by myself indoor antenna same
receiption quality? (Signal Strength) Sincerely. Best 73's M
CankurtI am in an apt. I use 50 feet of bare copper wire strung around
the ceiling, and then a 20 foot Zep Wire as the feedline, and I get
real fine reception. I also us a Kaito Loop antenna that mounts in a
window, that is much better than I expected. I also have some of the 20
fot reel antennsa. I put one in the bedroom, one in the living room,
and then join them into a double mono min-plug for an indoor dipole,
which is fair, but not great, but is quite and picks up all the big gun
stations. These are for portables. You can also use an antenna tuner to
place in between, if your poratables overload, I use an older MFJ-959B,
which helps a great deal.My old desktop receivers work fine with just
30' of wire attached to the antenna terminal. I have improvised many
different types of apratment antennas over the years, and have had good
results, but there is nothing like an outdoor random wire.

Hi, I am very interested in your apartment setup, sense I'm in that type
of situation myself. Can you tell me exactly what a Zep line is and
where I can get one. Also, I would appreciate more details on how you
hooked all of it up. I was wondering what would happen if I ran the wire
around the wall in my apartment, so reading your post gave me more
ideas. If you could explain more of what you did, that would be great.
I'm a newbie here, so bare with me. -Thanks

Come on, the guy posted back in 2006, your quote even points that out.

Chances are very slim that the guy is still here. Just because google
lets you reply to messages older than 30 days (and it is a bug, they need
to fix it, like they did once before) doesn't mean you should. Especially
when you're clueless enough to not realize how old the message is.

If it's older than 30 days, don't reply to it. Start a new thread, saying
exactly what you want to say, instead of acting like some guy from six
years ago will be waiting to answer your late reply.

Michael