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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Active antennas for shortwave listening
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 17:39:10 EST
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Check the latest (40th, 1986 issue) of the World Radio TV Handbook; many
libraries get this, and it might be findable in bookstores since it is
now distributed in the US by Billboard. In the back is a section of
equipment reviews, and a nice feature this year is a short column of
Larry Magne's detailing the "best" and "worst" of SWL equipment. One
category covered is active antennas. It will help steer you away from
buying any really bad units (I believe, working from memory, that the
Grove active antenna was one of the worst...)

Will