general coverage antenna

[kmi8dy]

how's everybody doing? i live in a apartment, ground floor, and we are restricted from using a outside antenna so i was thinking of using a wire antenna and going all the way around the livingroom and mount the wire where the wall meets the cieling, right in the corner. so my question is, should i use a braided wire, a stranded wire or a solid wire, insulated or bare wire, and also what gage of wire. my reciever is a icom r-75 and it has two connections for antennas on the back, one for coax, and one for a wire antenna, and also is switchable from the front panel. im thinking that this place is going to be a temporary one while i look and find some place better, or until i find something better in the antenna line. anyway if anyone could answer these questions, so i can get up and runniing for now. also if anybody knows of a better antenna to use in my situation, please respond.
thanks

 

[marksmith]

The wire antenna might do well for vhf or shortwave band monitoring.

It won't likely improve monitoring for 800mz and the higher scanner frequencies , but anything is worth trying.

Mark
WS1095/536/436/996P2/HP1e/HP2e/996XT/325P2/396XT/PRO668/PSR800/PRO652

 

[kmi8dy]

marksmith,

i was talking about shortwave radio. the icom r-75 is a shortwave reciever +50 and is called at times a general purpose reciever, or a world reciever, or a world radio. my 5 scanners work great using the flat window antennas that are used for digital tv's, i have hooked up to them. they have doubled the signal strength, of all my scanners. they do not work well for shortwave, mediumwave, or longwave

 

[popnokick]

This question really belongs in the "Receive Antennas (below 30MHz)" Forum. Have you searched there? Lots of ideas and experiences regarding indoor shortwave (NOT scanner) antennas.