.... and will really try your suggestion...

.... but, I was looking for something I could also "McGuiver"(sp?) to work on the next cruise ship... longwires are great for camping... hard to find trees on those ships...

.... kinda afraid what the captain will say when he sees me on deck--slingshot in hand looking around at the booms and masts... dropping something down the porthole might work... and I do suppose sal****er is some sort of ground... grin

Warmest regards,
John
"Hal Rosser" wrote in message .. .
Try clipping the pull-out antenna to a ground rod.
For some reason, that seems to work better than a long slingshot.
I tried Slingshot -kiddie antennas once and found a ground wire works better
for portables.
;-)

In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 08:51:22 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
119 Line response to a 25 line post, and with only 6 lines of new
content.

Snip

He responded to your post that way because you are full of it. Most of
what you posted is either wrong, off topic or unhelpful. Take your
pick.

Just about anyone reading rec.radio.shortwave has connected some wire
to a portable radio and gotten an improvement in being able to hear a
weak signal.

About the only right, on topic comment you made out of a long post was
about signal to noise being most important factor in the receiving
antenna system.

AND...

I'm not somebody's old wife.

I'm not a CB'er.

I have a clear head.

I understand how BALUNs work.

I did not imagine it or indulge in wishful thinking and the improvement
wasn't just by chance.

I'm not waiting to buy a Chinese portable.

I understand the economics of electronic engineering.

Since most of your 119 line post is pure disregard for anyone else's
experience or opinion I may have missed some.

If you can't make a non condescending on topic post then go away please.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Telamon:

Don't take offense to Richard, believe it or not, I have kinda grown to like his banter, do you like Shakespeare? Richard does that to... all joking aside, Richard is ok, he is just different...

But, thanks for your post... I am glad others have "wondered" my "wonders" and experimented as I...

Warmest regards,
John
"Telamon" wrote in message ...
In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 08:51:22 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
119 Line response to a 25 line post, and with only 6 lines of new
content.

Snip

He responded to your post that way because you are full of it. Most of
what you posted is either wrong, off topic or unhelpful. Take your
pick.

Just about anyone reading rec.radio.shortwave has connected some wire
to a portable radio and gotten an improvement in being able to hear a
weak signal.

About the only right, on topic comment you made out of a long post was
about signal to noise being most important factor in the receiving
antenna system.

AND...

I'm not somebody's old wife.

I'm not a CB'er.

I have a clear head.

I understand how BALUNs work.

I did not imagine it or indulge in wishful thinking and the improvement
wasn't just by chance.

I'm not waiting to buy a Chinese portable.

I understand the economics of electronic engineering.

Since most of your 119 line post is pure disregard for anyone else's
experience or opinion I may have missed some.

If you can't make a non condescending on topic post then go away please.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:15:15 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

About the only right, on topic comment you made out of a long post was
about signal to noise being most important factor in the receiving
antenna system.

Hi OM,

That was not me, and given that inaccuracy in reporting (says
something doesn't it?) makes the following suspect:

AND...

I'm not somebody's old wife.

I'm not a CB'er.

I have a clear head.

I understand how BALUNs work.

I did not imagine it or indulge in wishful thinking and the improvement
wasn't just by chance.

I'm not waiting to buy a Chinese portable.

I understand the economics of electronic engineering.

Since most of your 119 line post is pure disregard for anyone else's
experience or opinion I may have missed some.

This last comment of course, is prophetic by example with an obvious
negative expectation. ;-)

If you can't make a non condescending on topic post then go away please.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

You don't like the "stationary" waaaaa....
grin

Warmest regards,
John
"Hal Rosser" wrote in message
. ..
I was outdoors with a portable radio -
I happened to walk under one of those telephone-pole guy wires
and the signal increased dramatically.
It increaded more
when I placed the telescoping antenna
on the guy wire.
it was magic

by the way -
you oughta change your do-hickie program
to send text-only
instead of html
to the newsgroup

========
then the script-kiddies wrote a virus in c
it was a fast virus -zoooom
===
====

Michael:

What is your disability, why you can't work--mental?

Warmest regards,
John
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...
Hal Rosser wrote:

I was outdoors with a portable radio -
I happened to walk under one of those telephone-pole guy wires
and the signal increased dramatically.
It increaded more
when I placed the telescoping antenna
on the guy wire.
it was magic

by the way -
you oughta change your do-hickie program
to send text-only
instead of html
to the newsgroup

========
then the script-kiddies wrote a virus in c
it was a fast virus -zoooom
===
====


One good thing about his HTML. He uses a tiny font that I can't
see
well enough to read. I guess he's here mouthing off after the way
they
told him off in one of the rec.radio newsgroups.

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Actually, it may be, and it may have had nothing to do with that guy
wire/ground wire you were visually looking at (well, not directly--and
it serving as an antenna)... in the presence of VERY STRONG magnetic
fields, rf fields can be dramatically warped and rf fields bent and
focused... and, it is not uncommon to find hundreds of amps (in some
instances thousands have been recorded), at a very low voltage, around
such poles... but that is a whole different story which has not been
investigated well yet...

Warmest regards,
John
"Hal Rosser" wrote in message
. ..
I was outdoors with a portable radio -
I happened to walk under one of those telephone-pole guy wires
and the signal increased dramatically.
It increaded more
when I placed the telescoping antenna
on the guy wire.
it was magic

by the way -
you oughta change your do-hickie program
to send text-only
instead of html
to the newsgroup

========
then the script-kiddies wrote a virus in c
it was a fast virus -zoooom
===
====

Don't mind teleprobe....I've dealt with him before.
When you look up rectal probe in the dictionary,
you find his picture.....He oft complains about
RRAA being a crib of inbred morons, but who
do I now see here at RRAA acting a total fool.....

""I don't like him one bit. I think he is a waste of time. He posts in
a
number of news groups that interest me and is the reason I don't post
in any of them. ""

Sheesh....
What a chicken@*$% whiner....I don't really care for Telamon too
awful much either, but you don't see me whining about it, or avoiding
his usual roost of r.r. shortwave....I just ignore him. I don't
killfile
anyone. Killfiles are for girly men that can't deal with confrontation.
Telly said he killfiled me months ago, so he shouldn't be able to
see any of this message....
MK

naaaa, takes all types to run a world... but you are right, I hope he
is a "girly man" and will kill file me... grin

Warmest regards,
John

wrote in message
oups.com...
Don't mind teleprobe....I've dealt with him before.
When you look up rectal probe in the dictionary,
you find his picture.....He oft complains about
RRAA being a crib of inbred morons, but who
do I now see here at RRAA acting a total fool.....

""I don't like him one bit. I think he is a waste of time. He posts in
a
number of news groups that interest me and is the reason I don't post
in any of them. ""

Sheesh....
What a chicken@*$% whiner....I don't really care for Telamon too
awful much either, but you don't see me whining about it, or avoiding
his usual roost of r.r. shortwave....I just ignore him. I don't
killfile
anyone. Killfiles are for girly men that can't deal with
confrontation.
Telly said he killfiled me months ago, so he shouldn't be able to
see any of this message....
MK