You have very good advice re using a Wellbrook ALA 1530/330 as they are
inherently less noisy than wire antenna's.
If mounted high on a pole with a rotator you will get a vast improvement on
your present setup.
See PASSPORT for good reviews on the Wellbrooks
Also, you can read my own experiences with active antenna's at the link
below
--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
Hallicrafters SX-100, Eddystone 940
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

"Michael" wrote in message
...
Hiya...

Here is one I could use some help with.... As always, I'm always trying
to
improve my sw listening capabilities. I have an R-75 and two very good
antennas on my roof. One is a G5RV and the other is a 200 foot wire that
utilizes a coax feed and matching transformer. Both are very good
antennas.
I've thought about getting a new radio to improve my capabilities and I've
tried a few radios on loan from friends. Those radios include the
NRD-545,
R8-A and R-5000. I've come to the painful conclusion that the performance
problem for me isn't my radio or my antennas. Both are good. The problem
for me is my area. I live in the northern NJ suburbs and it is a very
noisy
area. I've read a bunch of web pages on antennas, but I haven't really
found any antenna solutions that boast to be ideal solutions for noisy
areas. I've got a fairly good understanding about antennas, but I'm not
advanced.

Does anyone have ANY ideas as to what would be an ideal antenna solution
that would offer me some improvement as far as increasing signal into my
radio and limiting noise ???

Money is no object, and neither is effort. I'll spend money on an "out of
the box" solution as well as put time into an elaborate home brew project.
Performance is key.

If it would help to know more about my current antennas, detailed info
about
both of them is on my web page. The link is in my signature. Any
suggestions would be most welcome.

--
Respectfully,

Michael

Location: New Jersey
Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods
Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire
Additional Radios: 7600GR,KA-1101,KA-1102
PL-550, KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III
Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube)
Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com

Has anyone ever posted a schematic of what they believe is the design of
the encapsulated amp' of the Wellbrook-330S?

John Plimmer wrote:

You have very good advice re using a Wellbrook ALA 1530/330 as they are
inherently less noisy than wire antenna's.
If mounted high on a pole with a rotator you will get a vast improvement on
your present setup.
See PASSPORT for good reviews on the Wellbrooks
Also, you can read my own experiences with active antenna's at the link
below
--
John Plimmer

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In article , says...
Hiya...

Here is one I could use some help with.... As always, I'm always trying to
improve my sw listening capabilities. I have an R-75 and two very good
antennas on my roof. One is a G5RV and the other is a 200 foot wire that
utilizes a coax feed and matching transformer. Both are very good antennas.
I've thought about getting a new radio to improve my capabilities and I've
tried a few radios on loan from friends. Those radios include the NRD-545,
R8-A and R-5000. I've come to the painful conclusion that the performance
problem for me isn't my radio or my antennas. Both are good. The problem
for me is my area. I live in the northern NJ suburbs and it is a very noisy
area. I've read a bunch of web pages on antennas, but I haven't really
found any antenna solutions that boast to be ideal solutions for noisy
areas. I've got a fairly good understanding about antennas, but I'm not
advanced.

Does anyone have ANY ideas as to what would be an ideal antenna solution
that would offer me some improvement as far as increasing signal into my
radio and limiting noise ???

Money is no object, and neither is effort. I'll spend money on an "out of
the box" solution as well as put time into an elaborate home brew project.
Performance is key.

If it would help to know more about my current antennas, detailed info about
both of them is on my web page. The link is in my signature. Any
suggestions would be most welcome.



What kind of noise?? Like powerline type stuff?


I had a bad transformer about a half mile from here and when it started
up, it was amazingly bad. I had to track it down myself (wasn't hard to
find, just a short walk with the dog and I could hear a nearly identical
sound like the noise I heard on all my radios, BZZZT!!
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!, and an occaisonal SNAP! SNAP! When I called the
electric company, I got the, "Oh, that one's on our list!" About six
months later, it wasn't done and was still about 6 months away from
being replaced. A direct hit by lightning moved it all the way to the
top of the list a few days later. It was well worth the 5 hours without
power to finally get it fixed.

BDK

"BDK" wrote in message
...


I had a bad transformer about a half mile from here and when it started
up, it was amazingly bad. I had to track it down myself (wasn't hard to
find, just a short walk with the dog and I could hear a nearly identical
sound like the noise I heard on all my radios, BZZZT!!
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!, and an occaisonal SNAP! SNAP! When I called the
electric company, I got the, "Oh, that one's on our list!" About six
months later, it wasn't done and was still about 6 months away from
being replaced. A direct hit by lightning moved it all the way to the
top of the list a few days later. It was well worth the 5 hours without
power to finally get it fixed.

BDK

Did they ever figure out who hooked the lightning rod to it?

See what an ANC-4 does for you; if there's a single noise source
that's most important, it will knock it out. Just use any two
of your antennas as inputs.

Even if it doesn't help the noise (say it's coming from all over)
you can amuse yourself listening underneath MW stations for the
what's there.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

If money is really no object, move (of course, if I lived in NJ, I would
move regardless of the listening conditions). A few acres out in the middle
of nowhere would be good. Since you probably want to stay where you are,
first thing I would suggest is to get the antennas off the roof and as far
away from the house as possible. Of course, feed them with coax so the noise
from the house doesn't come in on the feedline.
"Michael" wrote in message
...
Hiya...

Here is one I could use some help with.... As always, I'm always trying
to
improve my sw listening capabilities. I have an R-75 and two very good
antennas on my roof. One is a G5RV and the other is a 200 foot wire that
utilizes a coax feed and matching transformer. Both are very good
antennas.
I've thought about getting a new radio to improve my capabilities and I've
tried a few radios on loan from friends. Those radios include the
NRD-545,
R8-A and R-5000. I've come to the painful conclusion that the performance
problem for me isn't my radio or my antennas. Both are good. The problem
for me is my area. I live in the northern NJ suburbs and it is a very
noisy
area. I've read a bunch of web pages on antennas, but I haven't really
found any antenna solutions that boast to be ideal solutions for noisy
areas. I've got a fairly good understanding about antennas, but I'm not
advanced.

Does anyone have ANY ideas as to what would be an ideal antenna solution
that would offer me some improvement as far as increasing signal into my
radio and limiting noise ???

Money is no object, and neither is effort. I'll spend money on an "out of
the box" solution as well as put time into an elaborate home brew project.
Performance is key.

If it would help to know more about my current antennas, detailed info
about
both of them is on my web page. The link is in my signature. Any
suggestions would be most welcome.

--
Respectfully,

Michael

Location: New Jersey
Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods
Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire
Additional Radios: 7600GR,KA-1101,KA-1102
PL-550, KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III
Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube)
Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com

I know a guy (Michael Smith at Army.mil) who was in Vietnam with me in
1964 and he is from New Jersey.He once said he escaped New Jersey and
never looked back.One time at Tan Son Nhut www.tsna.org I says to
Michael,I says,Michael,let's catch that Navy shuttle bus to Saigon and
get us some wimmins.At first he didn't want to go but I talked him into
it.We caught that bus and went to Saigon.He went to a bar and drank
beer,I went and found me a woman.A couple of years ago we were emailing
back and forth with each other untill I reminded him about that time he
backed an Army truck into one of those tall wooden poles that had those
lights up there on top of that pole and he knocked that pole flat on the
ground.He never did email me anymore after that :{)
cuhulin