I should have just enough room from my DX spot 3 hours north of the
bayarea. It's just about 400' square patch on top of a cliff. 6 years
ago I could run a 700' BOG. Thanks to mother nature I'm down to 400
and who knows what it's like this year. It would be a great place for
the QDFA or the wellbrook array. Untill I get of my butt and build
it's BOGs and my trusty k9ay for phasing..
BTW.... How much would it cost to build the QDFA compared to the
wellbrook?
Thank you.....
Derek Vincent
Vmedia360.......everywhere
On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:23 AM, neilkaz <[email protected]> wrote:
Dallas Lankford's marvelous QDFA design takes up 360 feet (110m) so
you need a large lot to have room for it, of course. Where do you
live, Derek? If you have room for one,I wouldn't worry about local
overload. Just make sure to not aim the main beam at super-pests or
alternately use smaller delta-flags or a lower gain amp.
73 KAZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Vincent <[email protected]>
Sent: Jul 9, 2010 9:28 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <[email protected]
>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP loggings from Masset for 9July 2010 Lot's of
X-band activity!
Hey Walt... I didn't know you had the QDFA??.. I want to build this
so
bad, but I'm worried about signal overload from nearby pests.. I want
this antenna almost as bad as I want to look in Guy Atkins third
party
plugin folder. I hope to make it to the big showdown in Oregon.. Hey
Gary.. Ready for those unid CC this year??? I know the spiders are in
fill bloom there.. EEEK!!!
Thank you.....
Derek Vincent
Vmedia360.......everywhere
On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:03 PM, WALTER SALMANIW <[email protected]> wrote:
Listened this morning between 11:38 and about 14:30 and noted that
things were substantially better than yesterday. Lot's of X-banders
there in low audio, and some of the Russian LW stations. Last
night, I did see the 1566 carrier at almost audio level around and
after 05:00. Thanks to Nick Hall-Patch for reminding us of grayline
possibilities! Using the QDFA aimed north worked fine for 1566,
while I was seeing a somewhat weaker signal from RFO Tahiti on 738
aiming the Wellbrook array to the S/SW. As my Perseus was acting up
(no, my laptop), I mostly used the AOR 7030+ this morning, starting
at the top of the band and working down.......Walt
For this morning, here's a partial list with "6" unless noted
otherwise:
180: 6.5
1701
1683.28, 1665.0, 1656, 1647
1638: 7 level with Greek or Arabic sounding music
1629
1611: 7
1602: 6.5 level with oldies music
1566: 9 level HLAZ
1548: ABC at 7 level
1539, 1512
1503: 7 level Japanese with cochannel music
1494: 7 level music at 12:19
1485: JJ talk at 6.5 to 7
1476, 1475 both 6.5 to 7
1467: 6 to 7 level
1440: JJ music at 8 level
1422: 9 level JORF Yokohama
1413: JJ talk at 7 level
1386: 2 cochannels. NHK2 and another slightly weaker, although the
latter dominated when switched over to the ALA antenna....Radio
Tarana at 8 level).
1377: NHK2 at 7.5 at 12:26 with EE lesson.
1368, 1359, 1323
1314: 7 level JOUF Osaka at 12:31
For some reason the band below was quite noisy this morning. Also a
comment on last night: Lot's of atmospheric noise! Par for summer,
I suppose (which has arrived in Masset....temperatures in the upper
20s and a glorious sunset with pink/red skies after 22:00 local).
That's it for now. Just a few days left before heading back to
Victoria, and work........Walt in Masset.
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