What do you mean by "splash"?

I have Beverage antennas of 450 and 700 feet, oriented toward my desired
targets *and* (unfortunately) a number of 50kw MW stations in the
Seattle/Tacoma area. I also have a 1 kw station 1.4 miles off the end of one
of the antennas. I have a number of S-9+65db stations on the dial, but my
R-75 and IC-756Pro handle them well. However, I'm not using the hi-Z input
but the 50-ohm unbalanced input via a Beverage matching transformer and
grounded, double-shielded coax.

Have you tried adding a transformer and the 50-ohm input?

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA


"Michael" wrote in message
...
I just wanted to share the results an antenna experiment I did tonight. In
the rain, no less.

The antenna was simple. 300 feet of solid core 20 gauge copper wire. I
ran it from the 500 ohm connector of my R-75, out of the shack and all the
way into the back yard. The yard extends about 200 feet, so I had to
double the wire back in the direction of the shack for 100 feet.

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.

Weird...

Michael