06-10-2010, 08:21 AM
Dave
The 1939 models, for the most part, did not have loop antennas; they still relied on a longwire. (The portable 39-71/39-72 sets were the exception as they did have built-in loop antennas.) A longwire antenna should be, as Terry pointed out, as long and as high as you can put it and as far away from power lines as possible.
Sometimes you have to live with a piece of wire strung around the baseboard of the room the radio is in. But an outdoor longwire, with proper lightning protection, is much better.
The 1939 models, for the most part, did not have loop antennas; they still relied on a longwire. (The portable 39-71/39-72 sets were the exception as they did have built-in loop antennas.) A longwire antenna should be, as Terry pointed out, as long and as high as you can put it and as far away from power lines as possible.
Sometimes you have to live with a piece of wire strung around the baseboard of the room the radio is in. But an outdoor longwire, with proper lightning protection, is much better.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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