It would be interesting to compare the pattern of a EWE and ALA. Since I have installed the NE EWE, the dominant stations on so many frequencies are different. During most of the day the weaker Portland stations are non existant or if there very weak and buried. Here are a few examples:
FREQ SW EWE NE EWE 550 KOAC KARI/KOAC 610 KRTA KONA/CKYL 660 KXOR KAPS/CFFR 700 KGRV KXLX 740 KCBS CBX 760 ..... CFLD 770 KTTH KTTH/CHQR 790 KWIL/KWSW KGMI/CFCW *800 KPDQ CKOR 920 KSHO KGTK/KXLY 930 KAGI KYAK/CJCA 960 KLAD KALE/CFAC *970 KCMD KTTO/KCMD *1010 KOOR CBR 1030 KDUN KMAS *1040 KXPD CKST 1050 KORE KEYF/KBLE *1080 KFXX KVNI/KFXX *1150 KXMG KKNW/CKFR and so on. The lobe of this new NE EWE is excellent. I am amazed how well it works being so small (15X40X15). I know it is still Winter and some of these stations will not be dominant come Summer, but the pattern is pretty tight to wipe out stronger stations to the South. In reverse, the SW EWE, when peaked correctly has also works as well. One downside to this EWE is the lobe, which is a double edged sword, as well as I get the weaker stations to the NE, I also get Seattle/Vancouver/Calgary/Edmonton on about every channel at night and some signals are like S9+20-40 DB!!! Also my weak locals are not as weak now, with the NE lobe, it is aimed at KAST/KKEE-Astoria. KAST at 5.6 miles away is S9+50 DB now! KKEE 1230 is S9+45 DB. Fortunately both are talk and splatter very little. But of course I can switch to the SW or NW EWEs, or phase the stations. But along with a new lobe I get pretty of pests too. Oh yes, Seatle & the Puget Sound to the NE.....KIRO 710 has an ERP at me of 86 KW already, so with the NE EWE, they are S9+25 days ans S9+40 at night. KJR-950 is another. At over 100+ miles, there is still enough distance between me and the Puget Sound that is it not too overwhelming though. Since there is very little IBOC to the NE of here, the NE EWE does a pretty good job on nulling stations to the S/SE that have IBOC like Portland and that helps. KEX 1190 has IBOC, but with the NE EWE, KLAY/KOFI 1180 come in fair during the day now. 1170 KPUG Bellingham comes in like gangbusters. Often when there is a weak opening for TAs, I can denote carriers or weak audio on only the NE EWE. I wish I would have installed it earlier. I had to go out and repeak the SW EWE yesterday as I could tell the antenna did not have the good peaks/nulls. As I thought, the cows had knocked the control off somehow. Even with the screening they seem to get all it. So I put an old log in front of it now. I can still get at it, but hopefully the cows wont. At least they are now chewing on the control any longer. hi. 73, Patrick _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com