Karl's point about noise reduction is well-taken. For years, I didn't hear a peep on LW until last winter. I had used longwires and top loaded verticals in efforts to hear LW, but all I heard was noise and a few NDB's. It was not until I listened on my ewe which was aimed 130 degrees from my location in Savannah Ga that I began to hear LW broadcasters with regularity. London is about 45 degrees from here. This direction is roughly -6dB down from the firing direction of 130 degrees of my ewe. This loss was in addition to the non-gain characteristic of a ewe antenna compared with longwires, dipoles and verticals My ewe put most of the US in the quiet part of my antenna pattern. Even though the direction of fire was not optimal for Europe, the noise floor was so low that the LW rolled in, night after night. My ewe is 18'x40'x18'. 73 Gil _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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