Brian wrote:

Thanks for the reply starman. If you don't mind my asking, what are you
using for an antenna and what is your qth? I'll post my results after adding
the transformer.

I'm using the so called low noise Doty-L, the plans for which can be
found at the URL below. This antenna system greatly reduced the noise
from appliances in my home environment. As I'm writing now, I have the
R8B on and I'm listening to a station with moderate signal strength but
no noise from the computer. This is also true when the television is on
in the same room. I could not do this when my inverted-L antenna did not
have a properly grounded/decoupled coax feedline system.
My QTH is far upstate NY, not just a few miles north of NYC, as those
urban dwellers like to call 'upstate'. Around here we see any location
south of Albany as 'downstate'. My receiving environment is relatively
quiet compared to more urban locations. I occasionally have to track
down a noisy street light or a bad pole insulator and report it to the
utility company. They've been pretty good with changing them. Here's the
antenna URL:

http://www.anarc.org/naswa/badx/ante...e_antenna.html


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