Richard,
My experience with the MFJ1026 parallels yours. It is simply worthless on
160. I've tried different sense antennas, additional preamps, and a few
other things, but nothing helped with the S/N. As a check, I played with BC
stations in the high end of the band. I could easily null out (20 dB?) the
BC stuff. On 2.5 MHz, it would null WWV but not the noise. I concluded that
either the noise was coming from an ifinate number of sources all around
me, or the 1026 was not adequate for the task. I plan on trying again when
I have more time to waste.
73,
Larry - W7IUV
w7iuv@arrl.net
http://www.axtek.com/w7iuv
Amp pix at http://207.108.137.61
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