I think just about anything is better than the ferrite antenna in most AM
BCB radios.
When I was a teenager the local 5KW radio station would go directional and
reduce its power to 1kW. When it did this I could barely pick it up.
Five miles down the road it boomed in. Unfortunately this was also the
time it started the programing I enjoyed. I already had 4 hooks in the
wall roughly in a square so I drped some antenna rotr wire arounfd the
hooks and connected the ends together to form a coil. From the two open
ends I ran a coax to a two turn loop i slipped over the ferrite antenna.
worked like a champ not to mention it allowed me to pick up a lot of other
radio stations from my South Ga.location including WLS with John "records
truly is my middle name " Landecker. After being able to pick up WLS I
soon lost interest in the local station.

Anyway this was probably not the best antenna but it did the job.


Could be the antenna was coupled to the radio by just wraping the coupling
coil around the radio. I forget which way worked the best now.