I should add that I want the extra antenna to be able to pick up
longwave also. I haven't picked up a single beacon or anything else on
LW with the G6. Just two tones but nothing else. I do live 35 miles as
the crow flies to the nearest real aiport here.

And I'll add, compared to my PRO-95 scanner which picks up airband and
picks it up well, the G6 has been crap there. All sorts of FM signal
images are in the band making it hard to scan through. Putting a
squelch control into the G6 could be a godsend for us who like to
listen to air traffic by sitting on a few channels. Right how, I would
say the G6 is useless for airband scanning.