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Sony 7600GR question
Hi all I have bought myself a Sony 7600GR, which I am very pleased with. 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. I have tried both methods of connecting it to the radio, 1-crocodile clip to whip antenna and also longwire soldered to jack-plug and plugged into SW-antenna jack. 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. thanks Alan |
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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 ... 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. |
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