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Is it possible my radio doesn't require a tradition antenna, as in a Discone, or Dipole, cause I've tried both, at least my own version, and neither of them seem to work at all, but when I simply connect the coax stinger directly to an old fashion monopole, telescoping antenna, without...

I made something like the Discone, it was a nifty varient , link below to it, except instead of useing solid metal sheets, I used thin metal wire, that is used for ceiling tile installations, but I'm not sure if it works any better, as there is a heavy snow storm today, and the cloud ceiling is...

Ok, another HUGE thanks Berkeman, you have been a great help, no more questions for now :) I've got both sides of the conversation as far as I can tell, and quality for the rest seems almost clear, so I'll take some time and mess with antenna positions and stuff, see how that works for me, I'll...

I have a Balun I think, its a coax to 2 prong screw on cable feed thing for old TVs, the ones where you screw this adaptor to the back of the tv, 2 screws, it doesn't say anything on it except the name... its a Magnavox CATV systems T-26. So if this T-26 is the Balun, how would I hook it up...

you got to pay to join, more then it costs to get a ham license, what gives :)

books...man, what century do you live in :P I was actually thinking of going to the library tomorrow and getting a couple books they have, on antenna's and radios. So that should help a whole bunch. And I know I ask a lot of questions, I really really appreciate your help berkeman, you are the...

Would it make a difference putting the antenna on the chimney like in that picture?? Or would the furnace create interference ?? I live in a cold climate, furnace runs a lot :)

Ok, let's see, tower is 118.4mhz, plus I am trying to get ATC for the area on 119.2mhz, I'm pretty sure the jack on the radio is 75, but not certain, when I switched over to all 75ohm coax i did see a decent improvement in quality of sound, and it seem to pick up more traffic. Also, while...

well, I don't have one of those great huge things, I thought you meant the small antenna's that would come out of the back of the TV like this : http://www.thesourcecc.com/images/Online/27/2701402l.jpg Still waiting on an 8' ladder to get up on the roof, to mount my original helical antenna...

when you say a TV antenna, you mean a single mast, say like off the back of a late 80's model tv, or stereo, straight, extend-able, kinda like a professor's metal pointer, or are you talking something like rabbit ears or something else? as for polarization, I'm not really sure what that is :)...

I'm trying to receive the same frequency's, I have an old Sony Air 7 Tuner/Receiver, with a 1' or so Helical antenna(RX only I assume), problem I'm having is hearing both sides of the conversation, I've moved the antenna outside onto my deck, with some BNC to RJ45 connectors and a bunch of cat 5...