>NB> recieving antenna. Something you might want to try just as an
 >NB> interesting
 >NB> experiment is take a small pocket-sized AM radio and wrap the end of
 >NB> a long
 >NB> peice of wire around it several times. You'd never believe the
 >NB> stations
 >NB> that "el-cheapo" radio is capable of picking up!
 >NB>
 >NB>
 >
 >    Someone even commercially sells (at a fancy price) some gadget that
 >essentially is the same!
Hehehe
It never ceases to amaze me some of the stuff that's available on the market 
that a person can throw together with stuff they already have on hand. I once 
built what I called a "Longwire Longwave Filter." It was enclosed in a 35mm 
film can, and what it did was filter all the MW garbage out of the longwave 
band. It improved longwave reveption tremendously! When I showed it to a 
friend, he went nuts telling me that I oughta market the thing. Then I told 
him to open it up and he saw that all I did was make a toroidal choke out of 
a large ferrite bead. He couldn't believe it.
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