I have a Realistic DX-160 0.15-30Mhz Solid State Communications Receiver for
which I want to build or obtain an antenna.

I can buy 500' of 14awg twisted strand insulated copper wire from Lowes for
$40. Then what? I have two trees about 200' apart I could get the ladder
and string the wire. Would that work?

I used to have a dipole antenna but it never seemed to make any difference.
What component is in the nodes, anyway? A capacitor? A resistor?

In the meantime while I try and figure it out, I'm working on acquiring an
8' ground rod. Plus grounding the coaxial.

Is this radio even worth an antenna?

What about a vertical mast antenna? I don't need to transmit, just receive.
How good do those work?

Is a wire antenna best strung E-W or N-S? I want Europe, not Spanish.

Apparently the end of the wire can act as a node to a wave 2 or 3 times as
long as the wire. The length of the wire can divide into waves 1/2, 1/3,
1/4 etc. the length of the wire.

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/jon8338/math/id39.html

All I know has taught me I know nothing. Jon