[PCR-1000] pour HF performance

[radio_q at juno.com]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:33:50 +0200 "Robbins, Matty"
<matty.robbins at intel.com> writes:
> Hi All
> I am connected with the Radio shack discone antenna. My RF 
> performances
> is really bad and I can not receive even one ham or sea to land
> transmissions. I only receive very strong SW signals. Are there any
> beacons that I can test my reception?   I have a bad feeling that 
> some
> thing is wrong on the SW bands on my receiver. On VHF and UHF the
> reception is ok. 

The common discone is for VHF/UHF only.  If that is the antenna you are
using for the SW bands, you have almost nothing for an antenna. 
Disconnect the discone and just put a piece of wire in the back and see
if it doesn't get better.   Almost anything will work better on SW than a
discone.  e.g., on SW, the only thing you have to pick up a signal is the
little top hat on the top of the discone.  That's about like taking
several screw drivers and putting them on your input terminal and
listening to stations.

Good luck - with a longer wire for SW reception.

Jay

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