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alpard:
Yeah,  my long wire antenna could be modified for something else such as into a Loop. I am looking into this project.

But yes, vertical antenna had been in my mind too.  But what I was surprised with my portable XHDATA D-808 is that when I walk around in the room with the radio on and only with the whip antenna, it can receive very difficult to copy signals at one spot, usually near the window, but not always. Sometimes it happens right in the middle of the room, and it copies the signals my ICOM struggles to copy with the outside long wire. But as soon as I move one step away from the spot, it loses it.

But for the 15575, I mean I used to copy it ok before. But recently it got very very weak. And today, again no reception, but a very strong VOA which was supposed to be on 15580 was heard on 15575 wiping out the faint trace of the Radio Korea signal.  So I gave it up.

But guess what, I copied a very rare DX last night with the same set up and radio. It is Zambia NBC Radio 1 from LUSAKA Zambia on 5915 kHz, and it was good signal. I couldn't believe it. I was quite happy with that.  I put that into my twitter account.

https://twitter.com/gm0mop/status/1278419467492605952

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