Gee, mom, why didn't you insist that I try diversity reception sooner? After reading a review here, I ordered and installed a Pixel RF PRO-1A active loop antenna on an RCA VH126N rotor above our porch enclosure as my receive-only antenna. All promised benefits - spotting stations, diversity reception, SWLing, and more - are neat. Have had the second receiver on a short wire antenna, but that provides little value.
The cheap rotator is susceptible to RF - when transmitting on my 40 meter wire antenna, the rotator would activate to a random heading. This rotator has 16 memories selected by pushbutton or infrared remote; upon inspection, the pushbuttons look like little antennas, with no bypassing. I tried .01 mfd caps, but they made the keyboard inoperative. Switched to 330 pfd and all seems well. The bypassing is done on the main circuit card, at an 8-wire cable terminal. FWIW, YMMV, etc. Now I am looking for 2 400 or 500 hz filters that have fallen off a beer truck somewhere. Monty K2DLJ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
