[Hallicrafters] Re: An AM antenna

[Bill Krause]

Well that certainly is something I never knew. I have a feeling this 
thread is going to teach me a lot of things.

                                                             Bill

Glen Zook wrote:

>One thing that often is the case, the r.f. amplifier
>stage of many general coverage receivers is "padded"
>so that the gain in the AM broadcast band is not as
>great as on the rest of the bands.  This is because
>the very strong, high powered stations, tend to
>overload the receiver.  As such, to prevent this from
>happening, the manufacturer lowered the gain in the
>540 KHz - 1700 KHz range.
>
>You might look at the schematic and find the loading
>resistor(s) and remove them.  You may have to reduce
>the r.f. gain control when listening to local stations
>but then can increase it when looking for "DX".
>
>Glen, K9STH
>
>On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:55:20 -0700 Bill Krause
><bkrause at sos.net> writes:
>
>Using a variety of shortwave antennas ranging  from
>dipoles with traps to long wires I get very little AM
>reception, day or night, on any of my various
>Hallicrafters boat anchors or modern SWL rigs. 
>
>Would my best bet be to try and work with one of my
>old Hallicrafters or should I concentrate on one of
>the modern SWL rigs.
>
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