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Buying an antenna for SW listening is a waste of money in my opinion. I used to do some pretty serious SW and AM broadcast band as well as long wave listening years ago and all I ever used was a wire antenna as long as I could get it and as high as I could get it. I ended up with 600 feet long but only 15-20 feet high maximum. It was amazing what I could hear but half that was the really good receiver I had that allowed me to listen between two strong stations since it had really good filters. Your limiting factor is going to be that DX-200. It is fairly wide but the bands are not as crowded today as they once were. Throw up some wire and save your money.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 788469, member: 39"] Buying an antenna for SW listening is a waste of money in my opinion. I used to do some pretty serious SW and AM broadcast band as well as long wave listening years ago and all I ever used was a wire antenna as long as I could get it and as high as I could get it. I ended up with 600 feet long but only 15-20 feet high maximum. It was amazing what I could hear but half that was the really good receiver I had that allowed me to listen between two strong stations since it had really good filters. Your limiting factor is going to be that DX-200. It is fairly wide but the bands are not as crowded today as they once were. Throw up some wire and save your money. [/QUOTE]

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