I didn't get on at all Friday night.? I moved my Pixel Technologies Receiving
loop?(RF PRO1-A) from the ground to the top of the mast on my tower (about 45
feet) on Saturday.? It seemed to perform well up there.? It was hearing as well
as my transmit antenna but with less noise.?
Over 425 Q's in a little over 9 hours is pretty good for my small station on my
small lot.
Ran into a lot of old friends and as always, had a great time.
Running?My K3 into a Tokyo Hy-Power HL-1.5KFX at about 750 watts.? Transmit/main
antenna is a Bazooka with the apex up about 65'.? One leg slopes down?to my
front yard?and the other snakes through the trees behind my house.
This is a link to the Loop Antenna http://www.pixelsatradio.com/antennas.htm?
It's on the right side of the page, the RF PRO1-A.? A little pricey, but I am
impressed with it's performance so far.? I noticed some directionality, but not
much as ?the lobes are pretty wide.? I want to do more testing with some known
signals (like WWV and maybe some broadcast station)
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Please no blasting me for putting the antenna up high.? I wanted to test it up
there and it seemed to do a good job.? There were some stations I couldn't hear
very well on the Bazooka that were up out of the noise enough on the loop to
make a valid contact with.
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I will get my K9AY up one of these days and compare the two, but for now the
loop will stay up high.? Once I have the K9AY up, I'll do some A-B testing
between the two.
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Hopefully when I get the house built and squared away in Putnam county, I'll be
able to get a couple of beverages running and do some real low-band DXing!
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Contest Summary:
Total:? QSOs = 428? State/Prov = 55? Countries = 19? Total Score = 78,440?
9.3 hours B.I.C.
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Tad, WF4W
"What a long, strange trip it's been"
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The Grateful Dead
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Truckin'
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