CapnRefsmmat
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I've been having more and more success finding interesting things to listen to on shortwave (BBC World Service rocks!) and so I'm planning on putting an antenna up in my attic. I have a Grundig portable shortwave radio (no coax jack, so I'm going to just clip the antenna to the existing one), so I'm also worried about overloading it.
Here's what I'm planning:
I'll run a wire up to the attic (probably coax). From the end of this will sprout two (maybe three, if the radio will handle it; I'll see how well two works) wires, angled perpendicular to each other and running along the floor. They'll probably be about 20 feet long each.
It would also be possible to run a loop around the attic as well. Unfortunately, I'm limited in space I can run wire through (to about 20 feet in each direction) but I'm currently limited to a 15ft wire antenna that came with the radio, so I'll take any decent improvement I can get.
Here's what I'm planning:
I'll run a wire up to the attic (probably coax). From the end of this will sprout two (maybe three, if the radio will handle it; I'll see how well two works) wires, angled perpendicular to each other and running along the floor. They'll probably be about 20 feet long each.
It would also be possible to run a loop around the attic as well. Unfortunately, I'm limited in space I can run wire through (to about 20 feet in each direction) but I'm currently limited to a 15ft wire antenna that came with the radio, so I'll take any decent improvement I can get.
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