I have a Denon 2500 receiver. The small external AM loop
doesn't work well.
Would just connecting about a 100' 12 ga wire to only one of
the terminals and not grounding the other (too inconvenient)
work.
Or are there better external indoor loops out there?

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:42:51 -0700, fghgh wrote:

I have a Denon 2500 receiver. The small external AM loop
doesn't work well.
Would just connecting about a 100' 12 ga wire to only one of
the terminals and not grounding the other (too inconvenient)
work.

It wouldn't cost anything to find out. Get a 100' roll of stranded #16
or so wire at RShack, attach one end to your antenna terminal, and
unroll the wire. See what happens. I used to get good results with a
piece of random length wire on the old AM receivers I started out
with.

Bob
k5qwg


Or are there better external indoor loops out there?

The random length wire should work okay for you,
and getting a ground isn't that hard at all! Go by
the garden ceter of Wal Marts, pick up a bag of
potting soil. Set the bag under your table where the
radio is and stick the end of a wire comming from the
ground terminal on your radio into the bag. Works
fine till all the moisture in the bag disapears, then
just wet the bag...
'Doc