Wire loop on the ground for HF receiving: How Good?


Here's a great idea for reducing noise on the 80 and 40 meter Amateur Radio Bands.

Australian radio amateur Peter Parker (VK3YE) uses a wire on the ground to reduce noise often found on the lower HF bands.

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This is post 2859 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

Here are some comments from Peter:

A wire loop on the ground as a receiving antenna? How well does it work? Here I give it a test. FRONT socket connected to wire loop, REAR socket connected to G5RV. Read what others have done here: http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/ & https://swling.com/blog/2020/12/tom-b... PS: If you liked this video please consider supporting Amateur Radio VK3YE by: * Subscribing on YouTube * Checking my books page at https://books.vk3ye.com * Shopping on Amazon via: https://amzn.to/3iiDQXv, or * Shopping on eBay via: https://ebay.us/i9DuWP (then if you buy something I'll get a small commission at no cost to you).
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Thanks for joining us today.

Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).



 

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