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If you don't notice a significant difference in background noise levels and
signal strengths of stations when you attache a long wire to the receiver,
there's something wrong with the radio, or the way the antenna is being
attached.
Is it a wire that attaches directly to the built in whip? Most "long
wires" that come with receivers aren't very long. What happens if you
moisten your finger tips and touch the whip? does the background noise jump
up some?
Do you hear WWV at 5/10/15 Mhz at any time?
John
At 02:37 PM 10/7/2013, you wrote:
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The Grundig came with a wire, but I've tried the Grundig both with and
without it, and even with both antennas attached, and haven't had any luck
picking up anything but fairly strong local stations. Thank you for the
suggestions about gear, I'll take a look at those.
Hmm. If a small portable is so problematic, I wonder how it is that spies
use them. Or maybe the don't use them? Dunno. (Obviously.)
On Oct 6, 2013, at 2:35 PM, john wrote:
> ITed, it's probably both.
>
> Even a cheapish table top used SW receiver with a random wire will pick
up numbers stations , hams, SWBC stations, etc. A budget portable with
a whip MAY be able to pick them up if you have experience with SW
listening and are patient, but you'd do much better to get an Icom R71,
or a Kenwood 2000, or something affordable like that, and run a wire as
far as you can (even if it's just tacked to the ceiling down the hallway).
>
> A whip and an inexpensive portable is not going to be easy!
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