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Old 30th Jul 2020, 10:29 pm   #52
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Default Re: ATU vs. Preamp vs. Active Antenna

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Originally Posted by David G4EBT View Post
It easily outperforms a 66ft end fed wire aerial in terms of signal strength and much lower noise level.
David, were there to be cold and wet afternoon one day, it would be very interesting to see what results you got by substituting the copper pipe loop with a loop of a single length of connecting wire. I suspect that on the low frequency broadcast bands, the difference might be very small, perhaps undetectable. Whether that would still be true even at 3.5MHz is less clear, but I seem to recall you no longer have an Rx for that frequency?

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