I also purchased the $50 Justice Antenna and have had great success
with it. Really pulling in AM stations and increasing listenability
(word??). Very happy on my purchase. And always fun to have a new
knob to turn. I'd recommend it highly although at $100 and shipping
it may be a touch expensive.





On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:55:54 -0600, (Moonman)
wrote:

Sounds like this antenna would be a fantastic adjunct to one of my old AM
radios, once I bestir myself to fix em. In particular, I believe it would
be ideal for those old radios of the '30 that predated the development of
the internal AM antenna and instead called for the use of an outdoor long
wire.

Let me know what happens if you mount it outside (From your description it
sounds like that's an option.), or out from under your bed.

Also, is there any kind of effect as your hand approaches the antenna to
rotate it? I'd guess that "hand capacitance" effect would be unremovable.



In article , Gray
Shockley wrote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:50:56 -0600, Macman wrote
(in message ):

You have my interested peaked, sounds like the antenna works really well.
Scanned thru the C.Crane Co. orphan's section, but no Justice AM Antenna.
Is it listed frequently as an orphan or do I need to just keep looking?


It is fairly often listed as an "orphan" but, iirc, it is usually ten or
twenty (don't remember which) dollars off the normal $100.

I was setting up to do an overall review of it (with a CCradioPlus) but,
fortunately, "Stinger" beat me to it (he did a better job than I would have
done).

However, a couple of days ago, I went through all the MW freqs and, using a
very subjective percentage rating, wrote down all the freqs on which a
station was legible. If I don't get too sleepy, I'll do a nighttime check
using the same subjective ratings.

Then I can get the thing out of its box and find out how well it works
sigh/grin.

I'm about 2-1/2 hours north of "Stinger" but what will make my test "tough"
is that I''m now in an apartment with gross amounts of metal in the walls and
the only place I can use an antenna is a 4'x8' window (no openings to the
outside at all - windows are permanently shut and no one can get to the roof,
so this is going to be a rough place to get RF (oh - the worst part of it is
that the window is on the southern side sigh).

So we shall see.




Gray Shockley
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DX-392 DX-398
RX-320 DX-399
CCradio w/RS Loop
Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz)
Select-A-Tenna
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Vicksburg, MS US