Re: Tropo (is it still going on?)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 10 Oct 99,  Rob Landry wrote:

> > Would keeping the FM whip folded down (or even removing it completely)
> > to get the radio to work on that station only work?
> 
> Sometimes it does; it depends on the radio, the degree to which it is
> being overloaded, and the strength of the WCRB signal at that location.

I do something similar with a radio I have here in Brookline that is 
subject to overloading.   Instead of the usual Dipole antenna, I just have 
a short length of twin-lead connected to the antenna terminals.  That 
seems to prevent the overload that I was getting from stations at FM128.


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