In article
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Joe Analssandrini wrote:

Dear "Telamon,"

After all these years - I still find it incredible that many radio
hobbyists do not realize that the antenna is more important than the
radio!

The radio receiver does not actually receive the signal it discriminates
and demodulates. The antenna does the receiving. Some radios have the
antenna built in and in that case they are actually a receiving system.
The built in antenna could be a whip or a ferrite bar antenna but most
radios considered here need an external antenna or would benefit from
one. Here, if your requirements are easy, the antenna does not take much
in money or time to acquire or make respectively. If you should be more
demanding than going for the evening big guns then the antenna will
require more money and time. Skimp here and you will just get lousy
performance out of the radio no matter what it cost. That's the word
from rec.radio.shortwave.

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Telamon
Ventura, California