In Reply to: AM random length antenna information? posted by cootcraig on November 5, 2014 at 13:18:28:
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
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