On Feb 21, 4:04*pm, "Jeff D" wrote:
Trying to improve my reception from Chicago with baseball season
approaching. I'm about 100 miles sse in Indiana. I ran about 75' RG-6 from
my radio across the attic and outdoors to a tree. I had maybe 10 extra feet
of coax so I wrapped it around the tree. I strung about 50' of #9 steel wire
between 2 trees going east/west about 15' above ground and attached the
copper conductor to it. I terminated the coax shield at the tree with a
ground rod. At the radio I attached the shield to the ground terminal *and
the center cu conductor to the other am external antenna terminal.
It greatly improved my reception I get all the major Chicago sports
channels, but the one I was most interested in 670 is the worst. What all
did I do wrong and what can I do to improve 670?


When I was a kid I tried to pick up a 50Kwatt station that was about
100 miles away. I lliked the station because it always played the
music I liked while none of the local stations did. If I was 30 miles
south or east of my location I could pick it up fine on the car radio.
No antenna I tried worked reliably from my home. It was just too far
away.

Jimmie

Jimmie