"Jackie" wrote:

Dwight... just now seeing your reply...
thanks! This is JUST what I was
looking for. I guess there is more
room to experiment with antennas that
just receive as opposed to antennas for
ham radios... not as "necessary" to get
that perfect 50 ohms match. I'm sure
I'll have fun experimenting.


Exactly. Everything is less critical when no transmitter is involved. So,
while one wants to keep the rules in mind with a receive only antenna, there
is a lot more room to play around and even flat out break all the rules. My
current antenna would probably destroy a transmitter in very short order
(I'd hate to guess what the SWR might be), but it works fairly well with my
scanner. The wire antenna for my shortwave receiver is even more, um,
unusual.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/