On Dec 11, 2:10*pm, SC Dxing wrote:
After a week of owning the Grundig G6, so far the best antenna
arrangement for me is simply running a speaker wire along the ground
about 70 feet in my backyard. The Slinky antenna didn't work out well,
running a wire on the top of my house gave me more inference (plus
overloading), and the whip antenna isn't good on weaker signals. I've
heard that a CB antenna does well on the higher freqs on SW (15mhz and
above), if I can get one cheap, I'll try to hook that up on my roof.

My question is, what do you use for an antenna to listen to shortwave?


SC Dxing,

FWIW - Presently I have an Inverted "L" Antenna with a
26 Foot Vertical Up-Leg and a 103 Foot Horizontal Out-Arm

31 Meters Shortwave Radio Band = 25.8 Feet
* 31 Meters = 9400 9900 kHz

120 Meters Shortwave Radio Band = 102.5 Feet
* 120 Meters = 2300 2495 kHz

Using a WR LWA-0130 Long Wire Antenna Adapter
WinRadio = http://www.grove-ent.com/WR0130.html
at the base of the Vertical Up-Leg with a 50 Foot
Coax Cable feed-in-line.

Plus a 8 Foot Ground Rod at the base of the Vertical Up-Leg