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Highly unlikely on receive for the same reason as on transmit.
-- Telamon Ventura, California I agree in general, except for the fact that a dipole has a characteristic directionality, whereas a random wire significantly shorter than the wavelength will be omnidirectional. I suspect that there will be occasional times when this factor matters. When it doesn't matter, a random wire is still a more versatile antenna than a single-lambda dipole, even when untuned. I have an Alpha-Delta DXUltra, which is basically a multi-lambda dipole, and a 60-foot random wire through a transformer at 20 feet elevation above ground. Noise levels aside, there is little I can hear on the DXUltra that doesn't appear on the wire, and quite a bit on the wire, especially at freqs 6 MHz, that is inaudible on the DXUltra (even though the DXUltra supposedly is good down to 120 meters - this loss of signal may be a function of inadequate height, since the antenna center is only 27 feet sloping to 7 feet at either end). Bruce Jensen |
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