I tried making my own loopstick antenna using that same Radio Shack assortment
of wire, and it worked pretty good. I used the red wire, fergit what size that
was.

Antenna worked pretty good without a pre-amp. Using that stick and the Kenwood
R1000, I got a nice deep null on WSCR 1000khz in CHicago, some 100km south of
me, and heard Cuba.

jw
wb9uai
milwaukee