John Plimmer wrote:
It's just bliss
to have that phenomena that Guy describes: when the noise on the antenna's
is so low you start checking to see if in fact they are connected. It is
such a joy to hear stations thousand's of miles away waft in over the
airwaves as clear as a bell, yet the signal strength is so low it doesn't
even move your "S" meter. What a thrill!


It's a pity these sorts of locations are so few and far between. In
most locations, atmospheric noise is significant *all by itself*.