dxAce wrote in message ...
Steve wrote:

dxAce wrote in message ...
Steve wrote:

"MRe" wrote in message et.nl...
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I've heard good things about this antenna and recently acquired one.
The performance of this antenna is terrible. In fact, it's so bad that
for the past few days I've been scratching my head, wondering what I
could possibly be doing wrong. It's a very simple setup...so simple
that I can't think of anything I *could* be doing wrong. Just hang it

where did you hang it?

and attach it to your receiver

Which reciever? How attached?

and you should be good to go. Yet the
reception I get with this antenna is vastly inferior to what I get
with my whip alone.

Is there something not mentioned in the instructions that I should
know? Please tell me I'm doing something wrong...I don't see how this
antenna could perform so badly and yet get such good reviews.


It is not possible to give an answer on this question.
Please give (much) more details of your setup.

MRe

I hung the antenna outside, using the provided nylon cords, on my
balcony. It's attached to the external antenna jack of a portable
receiver (Sony ICF-SW77). I had to use an adaptor so that it would fit
the small antenna jack on my Sony, but it's the same adaptor I've used
with other antennas, which seem to work okay.

Although it is only 16' long that antenna should give as good or better results than the whip on SW.

I just looked at a pic of the jacks on the SW77 and I notice that it says 'AM ext ant'... could it be that that jack
is only for attaching an external AM antenna rather than one for SW?

I have no experience with that receiver at all but I guess I have to ask that question. What does the manual say about
that jack, and about hooking up an external SW antenna?

dxAce

A perfectly reasonable question, but the manual is clear that the
antenna you might be attaching to the jack is a SW antenna. They
explicitly say it's for LW/MW/SW reception.

OK, wasn't sure from the description on the jack itself. Might want to re-check your connections again if you've not yet
done so.

As I said earlier, you ought to get at least comparable performance to your whip or better from that antenna.

Let us know if you get it sorted out.

dxAce


Thanks. I will. The only thing that makes me doubt that there's a
problem with the jack is the fact that this same radio (with the same
jack) works very well with other antennas that I occasionally use.
I've heard such good reviews of this 'low noise' antenna that I sure
hope I can figure out what's wrong.