One of the equipment sponsors for the Kona trip was PK Loop Antennas of Victoria, Australia
As little as 3 weeks prior to the Hawaii trip I had never heard of them - the owner, a ham and former telecom-TV engineer decided that what Australia needed was a gadget to aid AM listening in their huge country - so he cooked up some passive and active magnetic loops. He sent me one of their sample passive loops that is tunable from 500 to 1800khz - And I am impressed - have been using it with the E100 slider -- although I should have waited a day before giving away the stock E100 -- as it is really made for any AM radio or ULR with its stock ferrite antenna. I find it particularly useful for boosting what the E100 can already do as modified by Gary DeBock in that one can get a signal boost and also phase out undesirable QRN (noise) and adjacent interference. I will get some photos of it in action on dxer.ca at some point. According to the engineer of the company, they have sold over 3000 units in under 2 years - which is staggering in this economy. Their website is www.amradioantennas.com -- .......................................................................................... Colin Newell - Editor - CoffeeCrew DOT Com --- Victoria, British Columbia - Blog - Coffee DOT BC DOT CA DXer DOT CA and Bob Harris DOT Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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]
