Stephen Drummonds wrote:
I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input Steve

Wellbrook loop.

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Stephen Drummonds wrote:
I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active
antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth
the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input
Steve

Wellbrook loop.

If he wants to spend the dollars, the Wellbrook loop
will do well, especially if he has local noise to deal
with.

--Mike L.

Stephen Drummonds wrote:
I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input Steve

Active antennas can be reasonably good, but there is one tiny hitch:
You need to isolate it from all the electrical and computer hash you'll
generate in your house. Do not buy a cheap active antenna or you'll be
sorry.

It's actually easier to erect a random wire antenna and use it instead
of an active antenna. That said, a well isolated loop antenna with an
external power supply, isolated from the rest of the house, might be
just what the doctor ordered for a small suburban lot. Loop antennas
have the advantage of being able to null out local groundwave signals.

However, if you have more than fifty feet of distance available to you,
I suggest you look in to the random wire first. It's cheaper, and it
just plain works...

DE AB3A

Thanks to all who wrote and gave me some very good answers to my question.
I think I will go with the wire antenna for now also to the gentleman that
asked what area I am from Im located in Alabama Thanks to all who
responded!! Steve







"Jake Brodsky" wrote in message
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Stephen Drummonds wrote:
I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active
antenna to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth
the money or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input
Steve

Active antennas can be reasonably good, but there is one tiny hitch: You
need to isolate it from all the electrical and computer hash you'll
generate in your house. Do not buy a cheap active antenna or you'll be
sorry.

It's actually easier to erect a random wire antenna and use it instead of
an active antenna. That said, a well isolated loop antenna with an
external power supply, isolated from the rest of the house, might be just
what the doctor ordered for a small suburban lot. Loop antennas have the
advantage of being able to null out local groundwave signals.

However, if you have more than fifty feet of distance available to you, I
suggest you look in to the random wire first. It's cheaper, and it just
plain works...

DE AB3A

Stephen Drummonds wrote:
I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input Steve

Steve:

IF you live in a Very , low noise environment;

- Or can move the active antenna out away from your home, Into a low
noise environment, then I suggest messing around with this.

Putting up an active antenna in a noisy environment will just ..
Amplify the ambient noise as well as Shortwave Signals

Suggest Just use a regular random wire, with a co-ax feed.

Congratulations on th R-75

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:45:06 -0500, "Stephen Drummonds"
wrote:

I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input Steve


I have a Dymek Stoner DA100E active antenna, indoors. It works fine,
doesn't take up much space, but a full size outdoor wire antenna
provides stronger, louder reception of signals.

A big wire antenna is cheaper, the active antenna is more convenient;
take your choice.

bob
k5qwg

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:00:38 GMT, Bob Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:45:06 -0500, "Stephen Drummonds"
wrote:

I am considering buying a Icom r75 and would like to get an active antenna
to go with it. my question is this Are the active antennas worth the money
or should I stick with a wire antenna? Thanks for any input Steve


I have a Dymek Stoner DA100E active antenna, indoors. It works fine,
doesn't take up much space, but a full size outdoor wire antenna
provides stronger, louder reception of signals.

A big wire antenna is cheaper, the active antenna is more convenient;
take your choice.

bob
k5qwg

The Stoner and the MFJ-1024 are essentially car radio antennas. They
are omnidirectional and vertically polarised. These can be
advantageous attributes sometimes. The more antennas the merrier.