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Re: [TowerTalk] 160 RX antenna

To: "Robert Morris" <robrk@nidhog.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160 RX antenna
From: "Alex Malyava" <alex.k2bb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:26:54 -0500
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Yeah, that sounds right.

What do you guys think about GU4YOX receiving loop -
http://www.gu4yox.com/CIMG0500.JPG ?
I've listened to it, in VE3NE shack, and was really amazed, especially on
80m.
It drops the nose from S9...+10 down to S3 and you hear all the europeans in
the middle of Toronto with no problem.

2007/12/30, Robert Morris <robrk@nidhog.net>:
>
> The only one with DC ground on the "driven" element ?
>
> Tom Osborne wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > While playing on 160 in the RAC and Stew contest, I noticed something
> kinda
> > strange here.
> >
> > I was trying to figure how I could hook up one of my other antennas for
> a RX
> > antenna.  I tried them all, from 80 through 10, and still had some noise
> on
> > all of them.  Except, when I went to my 40 meter vertical, the noise
> > disappeared completely!!!
> >
> > Stations were way down, but readable, but the noise was COMPLETELY gone.
> >
> > Why should the noise disappear on the vertical when it is there on the
> 20
> > meter beam, the 10 meter beam, and the 80 meter dipole?  It was reduced
> on
> > all the other antennas, but still there.  73 and HNY
> > Tom W7WHY
> >
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