Topband: Short Receive Antennas

[Missouri Guy, N0TT]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:57:09 -0800 "Kevin Nathan" <k7rx at comcast.net>
writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I read all of the articles here on Beverages with lust but live in 
> such a
> situation where putting one up is not in the cards until I move to a 
> better
> radio location.  In the interim, I need to put up something that 
> will give
> me low noise receive capability.  I don't necessarily care if it has 
> any
> gain or directivity at the moment.  

You might want to look at an article in QST by K6STI, who 
experimented/made a "noise-cancelling" antenna. It was 
a wire antenna, 25 or more feet on a side, with open wire feed 
lines from two opposing corners that went to a center pole and 
box with a matching xfmr, etc.  One of the feed lines was twisted 180 deg
to cancel local noise signals.  QST article was Sep 1995, page 33.
and pages following....might be worth a look.

73,
Charlie
N0TT