[TowerTalk] EWE or K9AY Loop?

Eric Rosenberg wd3q at starpower.net
Thu Mar 11 20:14:39 EST 2004


Steve --

I think you're mixing metaphors here.

The K9AY loop and the Pennant are different antennas.  K6SE is the 
'author' of the Pennant.

Which did you use?

Eric W3DQ


At 06:24 PM 3/11/2004 -0500, N3SL at aol.com wrote:

>I, too, will give you a totally subjective opinion.
>
>On the 3B6RF expedition, we set up a Titanex V160 for 
>transmit/receive.  We also had several Beverages (admittedly very near 
>salt water, which is not a good thing), and a K9AY pennant.
>
>The Beverages lost in all cases.   If we could hear on the V160, we 
>stuck there, but the K9AY pennant (using the matching boxes supplied 
>by Lance-Johnson Engineering (K0CS)), rarely, if ever, was not the 
>better antenna.  Riki, 4X4NJ, a world-known, world-class 160 man, was 
>absolutely amazed at the pennant.
>
>73,
>Steve


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