The test of MW performance is daytime reception; at night you might
hear anything with even so-so sensitivity. All signals are locals,
almost, when they're faded in. The problem is getting rid of them,
at night, mostly.

I find my ALA1530's are less sensitive in S/N than the McKay Dymek
DA100E whips, more or less uniformly; but if you have an electrical
noise problem, that can be otherwise. My location is pretty quiet.

The built-in nulls in the loops though comes in very handy. You can
permanently get rid of the most annoying local station, leaving
phasing to deal other problems.
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Ron Hardin


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