Sday's response makes perfect sense. here is an alternative I used
after fussing with SLINK's for a couple years. I am an apartment
dweller

Dont get the preselectors. It's likely your problems isnt seperation of
signals, it's acquiring signals. Sday's post summarized my feelings

here's what I did (review follows)

My DX 398 is VERY sensitive and my first antenna for the DX 398 was an
indoor slinky vertical suspended with a telescoping fiberglass crappie
pole thru the center picked up every electron (choked or not) in the
house. Put the antenna outside, added a 9:1 balun and signal quality
improved 50%

MOVED

NO Yard at all

did this:

THIS will solve all your NO LAND PROBLEMS. Mine is on my porch on a 10'
erect PVC pipe

http://www.northcountryradio.com/Pub...0896/page1.htm


summarized in a few words:

inf*ckin'CREDIBLE!

Here in Winter Garden florida, several hundred feet
from a high tension line I am receiving portions of
the HF bands hitherto unreceivable on vertical slinky
or the DX 398 whip. It works just as welll on the
Ten Tec RX 320

NEVER RECEIVED CITIZEN'S BAND BEFORE !

I CAN with the North County Antenna

I received (tho sometimes couldnt copy) stations all
the way into the 11 M band. Before I couldnt get
higher than 15 M

In Late October I received VOA Philippines -
Normally, I dont receive Asia here. At ALL !

I havent made any adjustments to the gain control
(left it in the middle) and taped over the access
opening in the PVC tube to the gain control mini-pot
to keep moisture out. The antenna doesnt seem to
introduce noise and I am receiving FAR more than I did without it.

My preconceived reservations about active antennas are kaPUT!

Before the North County Radio antenna I couldnt
receive distant 40M stations, tho this morning I am
receiving central Michigan stations, Missouri,South
Carolina, Washington DC,Texas stations, W or KI 1's,
2's ,3's ,5's 4's,9's,0's

It even works well on 75M where a Looooong "war" is
needed

Cut lil' thang! Mebbe 30" long

http://www.northcountryradio.com/Pub...0896/page1.htm

I PVC'd it onto 10 foot of heavy PVC pipe strapped to
my porch fed with interior-type TV video cable (RG 6?)
and radio hooked up with RG 174u (?) that real skinny
coax

When you get yours, get some premade cable with a BNCto
whatever-your-receiver's-antenna-jack-is so you don't hafta solder the
blasted thing..

And you MUST, absolutely, MUST hook up your coax to it with a slip on
F-type cable connecter.

Best regards

Yodar