It is literally a random long length of wire stretched out from the shortwave receiver antenna connection and attached with some form of an insulator on the opposite end.
Building an attic sw antenna.
Coax shield picking up interference the coax shield when not terminated at each end acts as an independent antenna.
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I own a grundig s350dl as my only portable sw radio which has a 500ohm sw antena input for which i picked up exactly 87 5 ft of no 12 stranded and at hro burbank bought 3 insulators.
Get it as soon as thu oct 1.
Thanks a lot joe rasak.
It can potentially capture and contaminate the valid rf energy coming in from your attic shortwave antenna with undesirable electromagnetic and electrostatic interference.
The simplest multiband shortwave antenna for shortwave listening is probably the longwire for most newcomers to building antennas.
Would it be better to build a dipole and connect one leg to the braid on the coax feed or end feed the antenna and ground the braid.
My dipole is horizontally mounted on the eaves of a square building with the making about a 30 degree vee pointing east perpendicular to pwr lines about 14 ft.
Yet another shortwave antenna in the attic.
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Extend its telescopic antenna and place it near and parallel to one side of your homemade tuned loop shortwave antenna.
It s a good idea to have your antenna at least one half 1 2 wavelength of the antenna.
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Awful noise problems in the house.
One quarter 1 4 wave is the minimum height above ground for effective performance.
Turn on your shortwave radio mine is a sony icf sw 7600g.
Shortwave antenna plans and links category is a curation of 54 web resources on long loopstick antenna rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting echelon log beverages.
I am planning on building an attic antenna to feed my tecsun pl 880 sw receiver.
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Dipole antennas often are the easiest to build and then turned into inverted v antennas by raising the center of the antennas up into the inverted v style.
