Hi.

I don't think I would be very thrilled with it either--it sounds like 
something is wrong, there.  Do you have some kind of radials or do you have 
the antenna loaded against some large metal surface?

Also, just a question about the noise floor.  If you use a different 
antenna, or preferably a dummy load and you tune across those bands do you 
get a similar drop in noise?  If so, then it might be just the way your 
radio is aligned.  It is very difficult to get a multi-band radio to play 
equally well everywhere, and most radios will be more sensitive on some 
bands than on others.  I'd hate for you to pull your hair out on the 
antenna, if that's what is causing the quiet receiver.  However, if it just 
happens on that one antenna, then I would think that it probably does 
indicate a serious problem with that installation.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 02:55 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Just installed a new vertical for 12 meters and I noticed when I tune from
>ten and fifteen and then to twelve the noise level drops tremendously.
>Almost like I have no antenna. Is that what you get as well? Is 12 like that
>usually? A bit less noisier? I was talked in to working that band because
>previously I never really cared. Now that I actually went and got an antenna
>for it, I just want to know I'm set up right. I'm not exactly sure of the
>make of the antenna because I had a sighted friend help me, but it's one of
>those ham sticks about ten feet and I have it on top of my tower about 40
>feet. I think it's a workman's antenna. I got it for about 30 dollars. This
>guy was moving and I bought it from him with some other odds and ends I have
>yet to sort out today. I don't like the match it's giving me for 12 though.
>I'm getting just a match just below two I forget exactly.
>
>
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