Re: Antenna recommendation for 40 and 80M bands
I'm surprised that there as been little mention of noise of the type produced by numerous wall-warts and other electronic sources. Putting up a dipole for 60m about a year ago, I just found I was getting an S8 level of noise as soon as the feeder connected to the transceiver.
However, I do have the particular problem of both overhead telephone and an overhead power line coming in to the front of the property and being all together too close to one leg of the dipole for comfort. If my problem comes from them, that is very hard to avoid. The whole village has overhead power lines, and the sub-station is only about 80m away from me. The noise is not being generated by anything inside my house.
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