I have a noise problem here… I had it reduced down by putting a short vertical about 100 ft. west of the house… it worked ok, weeks signals but clear and little noise out there… but I figured I could improve on that so when I came across a used Magnetic Loop fairly priced I bought it. It is one of these:
Supposed to knock out that noise and gave me great RCV signals… so I moved the short vertical on top of the shop., set up the loop where the vertical had been… but it didn’t have enough coax to it so I had to buy some RG6 double shield (the antennas came with Quad shield but I didn’t see that when I was looking…
Since it is RCV only I had to get a RTR-1A to protect it and get a connecting cable to make the relays swap it out when I transmit to save the preamps… and I had to make jumpers for it and , and, and… well you get the drift… getting the antenna was one thing but getting to to work was several more things, and almost a weeks worth of moving, building, testing and other things… Tonight I got I working , finally… and it does pick up the signals and on the rotor is has some rejection (no gain ) but does reject some off the sides… so I can weed out the noise sources, some… and pick up the weak signals… it works ok but I am thinking that my old vertical may have worked almost as good?
The major issues now is that the vertical on the shop roof… picks up way more noise than I had on the other antennas ? what’s up with that? and I have a serious noise problem in the motorhome that I go that short vertical to take along… so now I will have to work on reducing that noise source (the inverter)… one things just naturally leads to another around here…
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