This first one is the loop antenna . . .
This second one is the wire antenna . . .
Not too shabby – World Adventist Radio / Madagascar – 100KW I believe . . .
If conditions are decent – they both perform well – when it’s crap conditions the loop will tend to out perform the wire most of the time because you can rotate the loop and use the nulls to “clean” signals up – the Low Noise Amplifier works great – but then you start fighting noise because you start dragging the noise floor up – at higher gain levels you’re fighting a losing battle – remember every thing is a compromise. And some of the time you can drag stuff out of the noise floor utilizing the MFJ tuner on the long wire that you just can’t “clean” up on the loop. The two really compliment each other.
The switch showed up – has anybody else noticed that if it’s something like ramen soup or a pair of socks – Amazonia has it sitting on the porch almost as quick as you click on buy – and if it’s something you really want in a hurry – it takes days??
I have a set of AM and FM filters from RTL-SDR for the feed coming in from the random wire – haven’t got them in-line yet – one crisis at a time – LOL!
The coax and fitting you see between the switch and the tuner? I finally took time to build out the correct antenna wiring set-up for the Realistic DX-160 and grounded it properly. For 50 year old tech it does well – there is a whole bunch of knob twisting going on to use it but amazingly it’s chugging right along. The eton 750 sitting on top of it shows the difference 45 years of advancement will get you. The fitting on top of the speaker? SO239 to BNC – so I can hook up the random wire to the eton 750 if I want.
Another switch or three and coax jumpers and I can move away screwing/unscrewing coax all the time – maybe set it up so I can hook-up portable radios as well – that would be cool . . .
As a side note – listening to Radio Romania International Thursday or Friday – their English language program – and the announcer was falling all over himself thanking the U.S. for the billions of dollars they (WE) had just given them to help fight the evil incarnate Putin. Anybody heard a thing about that? (I guess you use any laundry service you can ) News to me . . .
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