I have discovered an interesting "antenna" I have purely by accident. I think I mentioned I lost my NNW beverage due to the neighbors taking down the trees. Well the two hundred feet of coax running West is still out there buried in the ground. I hooked it up to the R8 and guess what? It has a very strong lobe to the North!! Why I haven't a clue. Infact during the day CFUN 1410 Vancouver is listenable on it. No other antenna picks it up that well. I notice it on other Vancouver stations too. However, there is one big problem with it. There is a very high "whoosing" noise level on the bottom part of the band up to about 1200 khz. It sounds like a bad ground type thing. Not man made noise. It is like one of the conductors is not connected type noise. A solid noise that does not vary in strength. Now at night I don't notice it as the signal levels over power the noise. I would really love to use this coax antenna. Do you know how I can get rid of that bad ground type noise? I wonder if I plugged in a matching transformer at the end would take care of it? Any thoughts. It sounds rather interesting as the signal levels are pretty decent if it wasn't for the background noise. I find the coax running West would be that directional to the North, but also my 40 foot vertical seems to have some Northerly directional properties too. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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