Re: Antenna Questions

Which direction are you pointing the slope?
Conditions right now are not good either...solar cycle et al. It'll
calm down in a few months and then reception will improve slowly. Try
7k - 10K area at night.
H


On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:13:25 GMT, "ASW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>*sigh*
>
>well that did not seem to work.
>I am being blown out by my local AM station.
>But I am still pretty dead on all the other AM stations.  I cannot pick more
>than say 3 or so.  Before it was about the same.
>
>But I all I seem to have done is increase the noise!
>
>I have some spurious interference every 60-70 Khz.  This is from my power I
>am assuming.   How do I get rid of it?
>
>I have it hooked up to about 50 foot of speaker wire.
>
>Which is in turn soldered to the center lead on my coax.  The coax then goes
>into my reciever.  Am I missing something?
>
>Thanks!
>
>"ASW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I havea wooden fence that I can attach this wire to.  Can I staple it up
>> with metal staples?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ant
>> "ASW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > Hi, I am going ot setup my own random/longwire.
>> >
>> > I have alread about 50 feet of 50 Ohm RG-6 for the lead in.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have about 50 feet of 2 conductor speaker wire, and about 200 feet of
>4
>> > conducter telephone wire.
>> >
>> > First am I going to need a 9:1 transformer to make this work?  My input
>is
>> > supposed to be 50 Ohm.
>> >
>> >
>> > Is a sloper omni directional?  If not which end goes to what area I want
>> to
>> > listen to?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Ant
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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