Thanks Noel.
It appears that the USA has a lot more interference from other stations
being close together etc. I think we only have one short-wave station here
in the UK, BBC World-Service, maybe this is why we don't get much bleed-over
from other stations, in fact I don't get any.
regards
Alan


"Noel" wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:47:52 GMT, "Alan"
wrote:

My question is regarding a longwire antenna for it. I have put up a
longwire
of about 130-foot (single wire plastic coated) fed direct to my Sony. I
can
not seem to notice hardly any difference at all, I can hear everything on
the radios whip that I can hear on the longwire, although a lot more
*white
noise/static* comes in with the longwire.

It depends entirely on your location as to how much ambient noise is
picked up. If you are in a city, something like the AN-LP1 (the Sony
active loop antenna designed for the 7600G/GR) might be a good
investment, as it has the ability to reject some of the noise.

The long-wire might be useful if you use it in conjunction with the
attenuator switch on the left of the set, and adjusting the level of
attenuation. It *might* help you pull in stuff you might not
otherwise be able to.

Do you think I am doing something wrong? or does it make much difference
as
I am in England UK and we seem to be able to pickup short-wave pretty
good
anyway.

It is much the same here in Ireland. I live just outside a
medium-sized town, so noise is not much of a problem. However, the
longwire makes precious little difference to most of my listening, on
the 7600GR anyway. On the R8B, it is more useful.