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Antenna for shortwave reception
PJ,
I've discovered there is no best antenna for everyone for shortwave listening. Ignore the trolls here, start off with your wire antenna, then experiment if you wish. I've tried a few things over the past few weeks and for me, just running a wire along the ground about 60 feet works best for me. I guess the only certain thing is that an antenna that runs outside will work better than an inside antenna. If you can't run one outside, try to put it by a window or up high in your house/apartment. Experimenting is part of the fun, just google around, play around, and have hours of fun on your new radio. I only in the last few weeks have rediscovered listening to SW radio. Happy listening. |
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Antenna for shortwave reception
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, SC Dxing wrote: PJ, I've discovered there is no best antenna for everyone for shortwave listening. Ignore the trolls here, start off with your wire antenna, then experiment if you wish. I've tried a few things over the past few weeks and for me, just running a wire along the ground about 60 feet works best for me. I guess the only certain thing is that an antenna that runs outside will work better than an inside antenna. If you can't run one outside, try to put it by a window or up high in your house/apartment. Experimenting is part of the fun, just google around, play around, and have hours of fun on your new radio. I only in the last few weeks have rediscovered listening to SW radio. Again I edited the news group header. By all means experiment with antennas. You can learn a lot this way but what you find that "works" for you is dependent on your local noise environment. The antenna jack has two contacts that work with the plug barrel and tip. The barrel is the radio ground. You can use these two contacts with a complete antenna like a dipole or loop antenna or you can connect a single wire antenna to the tip and the barrel to a ground rod or wire on the ground under the single wire. If your noise environment is fairly low then this could work well. If not then you can try other antenna types. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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Antenna for shortwave reception
On Dec 23, 8:06*pm, SC Dxing wrote:
PJ, I've discovered there is no best antenna for everyone for shortwave listening. Ignore the trolls here, start off with your wire antenna, then experiment if you wish. I've tried a few things over the past few weeks and for me, just running a wire along the ground about 60 feet works best for me. I guess the only certain thing is that an antenna that runs outside will work better than an inside antenna. If you can't run one outside, try to put it by a window or up high in your house/apartment. Experimenting is part of the fun, just google around, play around, and have hours of fun on your new radio. I only in the last few weeks have rediscovered listening to SW radio. Happy listening. SC, Did you inductively couple the antenna to your whip? If you didn't you will notice a marked improvement if you do it that way. Just in case you don't know (I think I posted this already) grab you some wire (I use 11 or 12 gauge) and tightly wrap five-seven turns around your whip and cut the rest off. Pull about an inch of the plastic off and clip onto that. At one time I was doing the "exact" thing you are except I think my stretch of wire was 70ft. But I picking up a lot rf here and there, pretty high noise floor on some bands. When I coupled it that way the noise floor dropped to nothing. |
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