CW wrote:
The answers you get on this group are likely to be far less than
useful. I
would recommend rec.radio.shortwave.

CW, I would suggest you refresh yourself on Signal-to-Noise Ratio, and
what it has to do with antennas. I took a look at the shortwave group,
and found a lot of garbage with little or no technical content. This
thread has had some excellent content, care to explain why it was far
less than useful?