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Long Wire? Vs Random length

an AM BCBand long wire antenna is of the order of 300metres long! Few of us even with farms are going to put up such.

We can if we have a house on a block build a 'random wire', but adding a spark arrestor is VITAL.

Adding an antenna tuner isn't. Unless you want the quietest possible sound and have wide audio bandwidth AM tuner stage.

An antenna tuner consists of a tapped coil over a ferrite rod perhaps and a vane capacitor.

Mine has just one tapping and I use the cap, since a techie set it up.


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Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger


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