[Antennas] Antenna question

Mon Oct 4 00:27:59 EDT 2004

What am i missing? How is the (S+N)/S off the antenna improved by using the
attentuater? If this was the case, for broadcast band listening here, all i would
need is a wire antenna and an attenuater - this should outperform a loop. My 
Uniden receiver does have an attenuater, but i do not seem to find this to be the 
case. In this high noise environment, a small loop outperforms a wire antenna,
short or long, because the N in the S+N is smaller. I find the same on 160m. For
frequencies above that, i don't have a loop, yet, but the noise is very bad up
to at least 10 MHz.
-Hue Miller KA7LXY