While using a beverage antenna or some other type of low noise receive
antenna, the decrease in signal strength on receive, as compared to your
transmit
antenna on receive, really is not the way to determine if the low noise
antenna is better It is the signal-to-noise ratio between the two, is what
counts.
A properly hung & matched beverage, of several wave lengths, will have a
better signal-to-noise ratio than any of the low noise receive antennas that
are
compromised, including loop type antennas. Willy K3VW
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