[TowerTalk] 160 RX antenna

[Robert Morris]

The only one with DC ground on the "driven" element ?

Tom Osborne wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> While playing on 160 in the RAC and Stew contest, I noticed something kinda 
> strange here.
> 
> I was trying to figure how I could hook up one of my other antennas for a RX 
> antenna.  I tried them all, from 80 through 10, and still had some noise on 
> all of them.  Except, when I went to my 40 meter vertical, the noise 
> disappeared completely!!!
> 
> Stations were way down, but readable, but the noise was COMPLETELY gone.
> 
> Why should the noise disappear on the vertical when it is there on the 20 
> meter beam, the 10 meter beam, and the 80 meter dipole?  It was reduced on 
> all the other antennas, but still there.  73 and HNY
> Tom W7WHY
> 
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