Dear Antenna Experimenters,
My inverted L is working, the amp is working, and the noise is horrible.
I got cranked up Saturday after having a terrifiically hard time copying a
California station Friday night. Was going to install a K9AY?? antenna
from a recent QST article, but it looked like it was only directional and
wouldn't help noise, only qrm.
I was at a loss, as my toroids for beverage not in. Read ON4UN book some
more and at the end of chapter on beverages the book states that a low
dipole or low full wave loop is something that works, second only to a
beverage.
So, got the torch out and some wire and put up 510 feet of wire about 12
feet off the ground in sort of a squished square. Noise down about 3 s
units.
I worked my first european tonight. Used the loop to receive, and compared
to the L. The L was far noisier, and the crashes took out about 50 percent
of his transmission. Very good copy on the loop.
My question is--- drum roll--and put your thinking caps on-- Is this
antenna directional? I can't tell anything so far, seems to work equally
well/poor in all directions. It is fed from the north east corner and is
about 105 feet on the north south legs and 150 feet on the east west legs.
I ran it through a tuner and into the rx jack of the corsair with the front
end saver box hooked up. The feed is open wire, about 15 feet of it.
I am starting to have some fun now.
Mike Michon
AB5XP
44033 Hwy. 42
Prairieville, La 70769
michon@eatel.net
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