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Occasional bursts of music (piano, flute, etc) and noise pops on freq. Good clear signal, max S4 or so. 1530: song w/kettle drums? might be slightly off freq. 1533: off air
Are there only three antenna phasers on the market (quantum, MFJ, and DXE)? The latter is waaaay too pricey, and the quantum apparently is only good up to 2000kHz....which leaves the MFJ box, and I know a lot of folks aren’t fans of their equipment.
Was thinking about adding a second LOG and using it as an array with the first one...
Pretty much any wire will work for receiving. The tricks are 1) location, 2) geometry, and 3) getting a reasonable impedance match to your feedline and/or radio (doesn’t have to be exact...but you don’t want a high Z antenna trying to feed a low Z input or vice versa.
I had decent (eg better than the included whip) results with some plain old enameled wrapping wire connected to my Sony portable. In fact, my old grinding came with an external antenna that was just a spool of 28-ish GA wire with a plug on the end.
Play around with it and have fun. Plastic thumbtacks are useful for temporary installations inside....