Just an unsolicited tribute to the K3's diversity feature. I had been
trying to work 8R1/K9XK in Guyana for a few days without success.
Although I usually do OK with that part of the world, he's been too deep
in the noise. I finally caught the propagation on 17 meters this
afternoon and could actually tell that he was there. But switching on
diversity turned the mere suspicion that I was hearing him into a
solidly copyable signal, and I worked him!
Technical details: I am using diversity to good effect on all the bands
that I have antennas for, 40-10m. My transmitting antenna is a rotatable
dipole at about 35m (on a building) and the auxiliary antenna is a Pixel
Loop
<http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/pxl-rf-pro-1b>
about 3m lower and 8m away from the center of the dipole. Although this
is supposed to be too close for good diversity, the vertical
polarization of the loop apparently provides the separation needed, even
on 40m.
--
73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
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