I recently purchased an Icom IC-R3, a handheld 'DC to Light' receiver. It
didn't take long to discover that the telescoping whip that came with the
unit is worthless at HF and AM broadcast frequencies. (I suppose the 50 ohms
input looks like a short circuit to an antenna only a couple feet long at
500 KHz.) I'm thinking of stringing up about 60 ft of wire from the house
sloping up to my tower and feeding it directly into the center conductor of
some RG58 or Mini8 coax. Would this provide a usable signal for the IC-R3
from say the AM band through 440 MHz? I'm not looking for DX performance,
just casual AM broadcast, SWL, and local 2M/440 listening.

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Bob D.
ND9B