[TowerTalk] HF LOG-PERIODIC ANTENNAS Comments Please

[Tom Rauch]

> Seems to me that depending on the antenna to perform the
function of a
> preselector is sort of silly, in a no-holds-barred system
design.

I agree a selective antenna will help a crystal set and
maybe even a really bad super-regenerative receiver design
like the Knight-kit Star Roamer, but most really serious
stations these days use superheterodynes with narrow crystal
or mechanical roofing filters.

73 Tom