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Help new to this
Hello my Brother has given me a knight start roamer ll that he found at
a garage sale. It came with copper wire and antenna wire but my question is how far away from the house do i have to have the wires? Any help on operation would be a big help please e-mail me or post in the group.if this is the wrong place for my questions sorry Wayne |
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It came with copper wire and antenna wire but my question is how far away from the house do i have to have the wires? Just try to get the wire as far in the air and away from the house as possible, if you have the room. If you don't, even a hank of wire strewn along bush tops or even around the ceiling of your room will do better than nothing at all. It doesn't take much to get SOME signals, and it's easier than you think. The Star Roamer II is not a difficult radio to use, and actually works better on moderate antennas rather than large, complicated antennas, since it doesn't handle strong signals as well as other radios (too much antenna sends too much signal to the radio, which starts to distort audio, or mix signals and have 'images' of strong stations superimposed over frequencies far removed from the actual frequencies those signals are supposed to occupy)... so if you can't get a huge amount of wire up in the clear air, you're actually in better shape than you'd think! Mostly, have fun! Linus |
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Ph45 Man wrote:
Hello my Brother has given me a knight start roamer ll that he found at a garage sale. It came with copper wire and antenna wire but my question is how far away from the house do i have to have the wires? The further, the better. But when I had one (it was my first shortwave radio, when I was something like nine years old!) we just suspended the wire from the eaves on a couple of TV leadin insulators (maybe 3" long) and it worked fine. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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Take a look at antennas for SWL -- URL:
http://ac6v.com/swl.htm#ANT -- Lamont Cranston The Shadow Knows -------------------------------------- "Ph45 Man" wrote in message ... Hello my Brother has given me a knight start roamer ll that he found at a garage sale. It came with copper wire and antenna wire but my question is how far away from the house do i have to have the wires? Any help on operation would be a big help please e-mail me or post in the group.if this is the wrong place for my questions sorry Wayne |
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