Fred wrote:

I have an old Channel Master antenna (looks like the Scantenna,
http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm.)


But to my surprise I could not notice any loss of reception! All the
usual stations were there..

Can anyone offer and explantion? How can a dipole antenna still work
so well with the entire bottom half gone?

If you had a really good signal strength meter you would probably notice
that the received signal strength had dropped 3dB. Not normally enough
for the human ear to tell. Particularly across a period of time, with
most power switches being part of the volume control...

Do you have your radios (or antenna mast) grounded?

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