On 28 Mar 2006 11:34:18 -0800, "Teenagedeathboy"
wrote:

Living in the very center of Downtown Reno, with it's endless casinos
and neon lights and other obnoxious RF mutilators, has done a beautiful
job of wrecking my shortwave reception. The current solar situation is
certianly not helping any either. That being said, is there an antenna
that is sheilded or a loop antenna that i could build? My apartment is
a studio and there is no roon for an outdoor antenna(which would pick
up more noise anyway). I have an ANLP-1 active loop as well, which
reduces the noise a little bit...but still not enough to enjoy
listening.

Vertically polarized antennas pick up more manmade noise than
horizontally polarized antennas. So switching from a whip or random
wire to a horizontal dipole may help. It won't solve all of your
problems, but might make things a little better.

bob
k5qwg