It may once have been an established convention to bottom post - these days
many people don't bother unless there is a specific need to reference
particular comments in multiple parts of a posting. May be irritating for
some, but build a bridge and get over it.
A more serious PITA is people not trimming the unnecessary parts from their
responses when there is no requirement to include it. If people really want
to have a look at how the discussion plays out, then they can go back and
look through it, post by post. Much more of a PITA to have people include a
couple of hundred lines of text - or more - and then reply with a couple of
words......
As to the actual topic of the post, yes, the analyser might be picking up a
strong local transmission that is confusing it - having said that, at my
current QTH, I am pretty close to a number of MW broadcast sites with high
TX levels and I have not experienced any of the problems or issues as
outlined by Andy.


me

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
Andy, you've gone back to top posting, and this makes it very difficult to
follow the discussion. In newsgroups (unlike emails), you should really
post at the bottom. This is the established convention.

Anyway, it's interesting what you have found out with the dipole
configuration. Presumably, you still have the coax braid and one side of
300 ohm feeder earthed. If so, I would not have expected there to be quite
such a dramatic change of resonance. However, if your earth rods are
totally ineffective (or you have disconnected the earth), you might expect
things to change a lot when you add 'the other half of the dipole'. If you
actually have room to put up an appx 60 foot + 60 foot dipole, why not
consider a G5RV (which, I believe, you have already tried) or a W3DZZ trap
dipole? This would get rid of your earthing problems.
--
Ian