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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
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? |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
"SC Dxing" wrote in message ... 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? I have a wire strung around the attic. Works so-so. |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
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? Two antennas here, one is a 70' wire running N-S and the other is 200' wire running W-E. Both are 9' above the ground and are transformer matched to 50 ohm coax which makes a buried run into the house. dxAce Michigan USA |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
"dxAce" wrote in message ... 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? Two antennas here, one is a 70' wire running N-S and the other is 200' wire running W-E. Both are 9' above the ground and are transformer matched to 50 ohm coax which makes a buried run into the house. dxAce Michigan USA Morning, I have used a sloping "L" for years both in Ridgecrest, Ca. and here in the Philippines. This works very well for me, just be sure to run the long leg E-W. Burr's Radio Shack - http://tinyurl.com/3wuscn Red Mountain, California / Bulacan, Philippines |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
On Dec 11, 6:18*pm, "Burr" wrote:
Morning, I have used a sloping "L" for years both in Ridgecrest, Ca. and here in the Philippines. This works very well for me, just be sure to run the long leg E-W. I'll google that one and try it. I'm happy with the reception I am getting but I guess part of the fun is playing around with stuff like antennas.... I figure with my little unit, I can't ask it to do too much. I figure I should have at least 2 different antenna lengths, probably 4 would even be better. I also figured out the SW radio I had 13 or so years ago, it was an RS DX-390 that went kaput after 2 years. I remember it would auto-mute though when flipping the dial. Too bad I mucked it, reading through the web, it was probably fixable. And DxAce, thanks much for your input. Now if I could find a radio shop here in South Carolina besides Radio Shack that sold shortwave/scanner stuff........ |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
"SC Dxing" Now if I could find a radio shop here in South Carolina besides Radio Shack that sold shortwave/scanner stuff........ I buy all my stuff on line. Burr |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
SC Dxing wrote:
On Dec 11, 6:18 pm, "Burr" wrote: Morning, I have used a sloping "L" for years both in Ridgecrest, Ca. and here in the Philippines. This works very well for me, just be sure to run the long leg E-W. I'll google that one and try it. I'm happy with the reception I am getting but I guess part of the fun is playing around with stuff like antennas.... I figure with my little unit, I can't ask it to do too much. I figure I should have at least 2 different antenna lengths, probably 4 would even be better. I also figured out the SW radio I had 13 or so years ago, it was an RS DX-390 that went kaput after 2 years. I remember it would auto-mute though when flipping the dial. Too bad I mucked it, reading through the web, it was probably fixable. And DxAce, thanks much for your input. Now if I could find a radio shop here in South Carolina besides Radio Shack that sold shortwave/scanner stuff........ Grove is in Brasstown, NC. How far is that? |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
On Dec 11, 4:10*pm, SC Dxing wrote:
My question is, what do you use for an antenna to listen to shortwave? An ethernet cable connected to the internet. |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
wrote in message ... On Dec 11, 4:10 pm, SC Dxing wrote: My question is, what do you use for an antenna to listen to shortwave? An ethernet cable connected to the internet. That works. I use internet feeds a lot local U.S. feeds, sports and scanning local U.S. stuff. Butt, I use two short-wave radios and a scanner for the world stuff I want to hear and I scan the Emergency Freq.'s a long the China Sea and air freq.'s. Burr's Radio Shack - http://tinyurl.com/3wuscn Red Mountain, California / Bulacan, Philippines |
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Okay, antenna talk time, what do you use?
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, 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? I have two split shielded loops. One north-south and the other east-west. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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