Topband: Shared Apex Loop Array

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It seems to me as a user of many types of loops of all sizes in a noisy residential area, that there is still something beyond Lower take off angle from the long beverages vs these loops, and perhaps even beyond better s/n ratio which makes beverages better.  OR maybe it's just the fact that those with long beverages are naturally in more open areas as the actual RDF, gain etc isn't that much greater from a terminated loop to a beverage to warrant the reception differences I hear on my station vs those in the general area with the beverages.  Can it be the capture area of the longer antenna is a key differentiator. ??


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> On Feb 9, 2014, at 1:13 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
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> See N3OC's review of the Shared Apex Loop Array in the February PVRC Newsletter, page 5 
> 
> http://pvrc.org/Newsletters/feb14.pdf 
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> Its competitive with other small receiving arrays and single Beverages and its not surprising that 
> much larger arrays of phased Beverages and phased verticals offer superior RDF performance. 
> 
> 73 
> Frank 
> W3LPL 
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> Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:19:29 PM 
> Subject: Topband: Shared Apex Loop Array 
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> I recently put reviews about the SAL-20 and SAL-30 on eham.net if anyone 
> is interested. Two on air demonstrations of the F/B are on YouTube. 
> Please refer to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVi5xQIXnXU (160m) and 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_S7JwfEpQ8 (80m). 
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