Steve, I checked out the antenna and found the fiberglass insolator. I
have procured some wire, 75 feet of wire with 4 strands insolated. I
should bet 12 radials each 25 feet long. Thanks for your help. The
vertical will do until I can can raise enough money to get something to
go on the tower. I find that if I turn the volume of the icom 751a up
all the way and use the rf gain to actually control the volume I can
pick up signals through the ground noise. After some patients and time
I was rewarded yesterday.