Russ Kiehne writes:
> I was wondering, what are you using for an antenna on longwave?

	A very, very poor antenna for now. It is the three guy
wires on my tower electrically tied together. When we get some
milder weather, I plan to change that to an inverted V type
configuration. I have heavy insulators designed to be load
bearing on each end of each guy wire and each wire is about 55
feet long so it still will not be very efficient on long wave.
Some of the really good long wave antennas are large coils or
loops of wire on a big frame which I should probably try some
time to see if I hear anything more than I do now.

	Short of hitting the jack pot and buying a huge ranch
out in the country, all my low-frequency antennas will be
extreme compromises.

	By the way, I hear that long-wave antennas work well
when run just above the ground. Low-frequency RF does not
propagate via the same mechanisms that HF does.