"Michael" wrote in message
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No mater what I tune the dial to, I'm getting splashed from the local 50
kilowatt am stations. The preselector doesn't clean it up either.

Every time I exceed 200 feet of wire, I have the same problem.

Sounds like your front end is being overloaded by the AM stations. I guess
the simple solution would be to not exceed 200 feet of wire. A 200' random
wire should work well, I'd think. But if you have local 50 KW stations,
then it's not unusual to get a lot of imaging and intermod with a long
antenna.

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Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc