Re: Topband: Control cable black conductors

2014-02-22 Thread Andy Ikin
Dave G4GED Wrote on Feb. 22nd. Hi and thanks for reading. I'm trying to splice a damaged (rodents) RX ant control cable. It has 7 insulated, stranded copper conductors all inside a PVC jacket. Problem is, when stripped of their insulation, 3 (black, brown and green), of the copper conductors

Re: Topband: Shared Apex Loop Array

2014-02-10 Thread Andy Ikin
Bruce, I have considerable experience with loop arrays; whilst they are good performers in an electrically noisy environment, they suffer from poor directivity at higher angles. This can also be seen with EZNEC models by looking at the AZ Plot with an Elevation angle of say 40 degrees. The

Re: Topband: Anyone have a boat load of J-310s?

2013-08-25 Thread Andy Ikin
As far as am aware On-Semi still make the TO-92 J310. Fairchild ceased production about 2 years back. I did a last time buy from Mouser for several thousand J310 and the much more linear J309. 73 Andrew Ikin G8LUG _ Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: Anyone have a boat load of J-310s?

2013-08-25 Thread Andy Ikin
Thirty years ago I used 6DJ8 (E88CC) to solve a third order IMD problem with tuned loop that was using J310s. The IMD was caused by Radio Free Europe on 13m. 73 Andrew - Original Message - From: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com To: 'Andy Ikin' andrew.i

Re: Topband: Anyone have a boat load of J-310s?

2013-08-25 Thread Andy Ikin
- From: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com To: 'Andy Ikin' andrew.i...@btopenworld.com Cc: 'Topband Reflector' topband@contesting.com Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Anyone have a boat load of J-310s? Yes, we could swing the grids of those tubes quite

Re: Topband: Magnetic Loops

2013-05-22 Thread Andy Ikin
Gary wrote on May 21. I've had a Wellbrooke loop for a few years at 20' on a TV rotator. It nulls a single nearby QRN source NW at 300 deg true. EU is about 15-30 deg from here. When 160 or 80 are open over the N Pole, it often helps me hear the weak. It's less effective on multi-source

Re: Topband: Magnetic Loops

2013-05-21 Thread Andy Ikin
Richard Karlquist wrote on May 21. It is important to understand that these loops have a circumference of 10 feet, which they are limited to because the manufacturers want to offer a bandwidth up to 30 MHz. Also, they are untuned, again because the manufacturers want to offer a broadband

Re: Topband: Ferrite core

2012-07-01 Thread Andy Ikin
Rune, Let me have your address of list. I can let you have a few of Fair-rite 2873000302 or 287300202 cores. I can't help you with the large ring core. There is no reason why you can't use the above as a 1:1 isolation transformer to reduce common mode at the receiver ( e.g. 5 turns biffilar

Re: Topband: Wellbrook receive loop performance

2012-04-09 Thread Andy Ikin
Rag LA5HE wrote on April 9, I put one up last autum and have compared it with my Titanex V160HD . At this quiet location I had to realise that nothing was gained, which was a disappointment ! 73 Rag LA5HE in Telemark Rag, the ALA1530 is not designed to compete with very large antennas like

Re: Topband: Pixel Technologies Magnetic RX Loop

2011-05-16 Thread Andy Ikin
Steve WB6RSE, wrote on May 8, 2011 If you've built your own Mobius receiving loop of tried the commercial product, a report of your experience would be of great interest to the Top Band list. Steve, I have just received a recent review comparing the above product to the Wellbrook ALA1530, it