Re: Yaesu vr5000 antenna

That's a lot of money for an active (is it?) antenna. I use a fairly ordinary discone up 6 metres for the V/UHF bands, a long (short? - 20metres long x 5metres high) wire and a trap vertical for the HF bands. Front end overload is not a problem here -  the nearest BC band TX is 10km away and radiates about 10kW. I made up a patch panel for various antennae into various receivers (NRD515/R2000/VR5000/TS120v) and apart from trying to send a few watts into an open circuit there hasn't been many problems. The trouble with multi-band antennae is that they do everything moderately well - nothing bad and not much good. If you have a problem with BC band getting into the front of your receiver, a good pre-selector/tuner will work well. EPay will have a few Yaesu and Kenwood receive only varieties.  Make an antenna for the specific band and it will do well. I'm afraid the Holy Grail still doesn't exist.

--- In [email protected], "davy99london" <David.millin1@...> wrote:
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> Available at Waters & Stanton in the UK See link:
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> --- In [email protected], "noswadplease" <ewdawso_1@> wrote:
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> > Susan you can obtain an AOR SA7000 from Universal Radio in Ohio for $239.95.  I have been using it for several years and it works very well.  Ed Dawson
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> > > Hi all, I am looking for an antenna for my Yaesu vr-5000 and have been recommended an AOR SA 7000, problem, I do not seem to be able to purchase this antenna in the UK, does anyone have any further ideas of an antenna I could use. I believe I need a 0-1300khz one but I am open to suggestions. Many thanks in anticipation.
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