On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:53:52 -0600 "Mike Michon" <michon@eatel.net>
writes:
>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
I tried one almost identical to yours many years ago. It worked the same
as you described and was also the only thing that I had to listen South.
All my Beverages were W , NW or NE due to property lines.
It was then that I tried the Slinky Beverage which did show directivity
and had better SNR than the low loop. At that QTH I used 5 Slinky's
stretched over about 150'.
73 Carl KM1H
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