[Antennas] Antenna question

Mon Oct 4 11:35:29 EDT 2004

Hue,
Why don't just try it? Get yourself three or four resistors and build a 
20-30 dB attenuator (designs are shown in the ARRL handbook) and see what 
happens?
Danny
At 09:27 PM 10/3/2004, you wrote:
>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