After a successful proof of concept of the corner fed broadband loop, I decided to enlarge the present approximately E/W loop (actually closer to 334 degrees), which I was able to accomplish, not without a bit of difficulty tonight. I started by raising the vertical components almost 3 fold to approximately 50 feet, and the horizontal component was lengthened about 15 feet to about 40 feet. The dimensions aren't anywhere close to the 2 or 2.5 to 1 as suggested, and my matching transformer for now is a 4:1 instead of a 16:1, but I just wanted to get it up and running in time for tomorrow morning's TP dx session. I looked at 2 frequencies only to compare and noted 738 (where I can see a signal on the 313e to have increased from -115 to -105 db....a gain of 10 db. Not bad! 930 improved only modestly from -90 to -86 db. Of course there's no improvement if the noise level increases the same amount. Tomorrow morning should provide some answers hopefully. It wasn't fun gett! ing up a very thick holly tree/bush to get to the altitude I wanted!
One log, by the way. At 8:00 pm I happened to be on 1350 and heard the CBC news...only 2 40 watters listed here and they are in Keremeos (near Osoyoos) and Bralorne, which is north of Vancouver in the coastal mountains. Both are about 180 miles from here, so not a bad catch, I suppose. Patrick, have you had any luck with the 40 watter CBC retranslators? ..........Walt. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
