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Equipment / first land based SW Antenna?
« on: December 13, 2022, 1131 UTC »
Ahoy all,
for most of my SW listening, I have been at sea, so a large vertical antenna from the USB/LSB SSB TX radio is what we used for RX on a FRG-7 froggy and a few other radios.
Now I'm ashore and back into SW listening.
I'm thinking two antenna types. One, a active wire LOOP antenna, 35' in the air, peak of my roof. Second, I have plenty of wooded space to the rear of my house. So thinking a long wires out to 135' or so with 3 shorter ones at the appropriate lengths to cover between 2 Megs and 30 Megs? this will run from about 25' off the ground to trees in my backyard.
My house faces East and West, so off the back side long wire antenna would be orientated along a mostly East West centerline.
I'm pretty handy at electrical etc etc, so can build anything I need. BUT thought these two would get me started.
I'm currently using a restored Yaesumusen FRG-7 "Froggy" with the added fine tune from later production. I used this radio 90% at sea, so comfortable with it.
What say you on the first antennas? this useful until I can narrow it down with further listening experience shore side?
Thanks all......
for most of my SW listening, I have been at sea, so a large vertical antenna from the USB/LSB SSB TX radio is what we used for RX on a FRG-7 froggy and a few other radios.
Now I'm ashore and back into SW listening.
I'm thinking two antenna types. One, a active wire LOOP antenna, 35' in the air, peak of my roof. Second, I have plenty of wooded space to the rear of my house. So thinking a long wires out to 135' or so with 3 shorter ones at the appropriate lengths to cover between 2 Megs and 30 Megs? this will run from about 25' off the ground to trees in my backyard.
My house faces East and West, so off the back side long wire antenna would be orientated along a mostly East West centerline.
I'm pretty handy at electrical etc etc, so can build anything I need. BUT thought these two would get me started.
I'm currently using a restored Yaesumusen FRG-7 "Froggy" with the added fine tune from later production. I used this radio 90% at sea, so comfortable with it.
What say you on the first antennas? this useful until I can narrow it down with further listening experience shore side?
Thanks all......
