[Texasrocker]

What would be ideal in this situation would be a simple longwire antenna tuner made from removing a old 550- 1650 kc tuning condenser from a garage sale (cheap find) plastic am tube radio receiver chassis. Install it in series ( stator and rotor) with the main antenna connector just off back of the receiver being used to receive stations outside receiving area ( mounted to a small piece of 1" x 4" wood with bottom screws to mount), connected to about a 40' piece of "insulated" 18 guage single strand solid wire ( old dynamite type wire) run under a window sill or closed window, thru or under outdoor window screen, tied off from eve of house to nearest building or tree as high as possible using simple homemade small 3" pvc pipe insulators. Tune the radio to the Dallas stations frequency, then dial in the same frequency on the added tuning capacitor to "peak" resonance. This setup can make a short outdoor longwire antenna look hundreds of feet long in a very small space. Grab that frequency!!