Thanks for the input :-)
As I am in a very very noisy area I try to take these things into consideration but sometimes I have to mention a few because they seem so... errrr strange...
I can say that the first one really set me to thinking... what is this?!? Just another 'unknown' to toss in the byte bucket <heh>
I went out early Monday and tossed a wire into a nearby tree for an end fed and the noise dropped dramatically... hope none of the neighbours see it ;-) You see I found a wasted golf ball on the common lawn, took it into my makeshift workshop, drilled a hole in it for a length of cord and attached a #24 magnet wire to it <hee hee>
Everyone was at work, kids in school (they tend to ask questions) and I gave that golf ball a mighty shot into a tree... ahaaa! instant end fed long wire...
The ground radials for the verticals are carefully placed in the flowers I have planted around the apartment... Just about any land lord will say yes to planting flowers right? Works for me...
later & thanks again :-)
73 vince
ka1iic