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

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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. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIEx58jGhw 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