Re: [IRCA] New antenna report

2015-04-06 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- I'll be interested in seeing how both Brian R. and Mark D. do with the antennas and I'll look forward to any online content generated. I will be more than happy to link to these from my own articles and reports so that the DX community can see how different individuals' exp

Re: [IRCA] New antenna report

2015-04-06 Thread Mark Durenberger
rk Durenberger, CPBE -Original Message- From: Brian Rachford Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 6:49 AM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: [IRCA] New antenna report I had played around a bit with a corner-fed, corner-terminated "Superloop" ( http:/

Re: [IRCA] New antenna report

2015-04-06 Thread Les Rayburn
Brian, Thanks for the efforts to document your experiments. Your antenna offers hope for those of us who live in deed-restricted neighborhoods. The rising noise levels here make me think that a portable antenna like the one you're building, combined with a laptop and the Elad FDM-S2 SDR might

Re: [IRCA] New antenna report

2015-04-06 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Please keep us updated on this Brian.I know that I try many things and don't document them very well, so I admire your persistence with this. best wishes, Nick At 11:49 06-04-15, you wrote: I had played around a bit with a corner-fed, corner-terminated "Superloop" ( http://www.bamlog.c

[IRCA] New antenna report

2015-04-06 Thread Brian Rachford
I had played around a bit with a corner-fed, corner-terminated "Superloop" ( http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm) last fall, but foolishly tried to make it too big and unwieldy to put up and take down every time, and was still lacking in knowledge about how to really do this stuff. Broadband was t

[IRCA] New antenna array and WPQZ702 on 1610

2014-12-14 Thread neilkaz
For the past couple seasons here my desired western antenna system here in Barrington IL has been a broadside array of two DKAZ antennas aimed due west. Each antenna is 120' x 21' using 23' masts with the bottom wires 2' above ground. Broadside array means side by side and there was 265' between

[IRCA] New antenna, new station

2014-02-22 Thread Chernos Saul
New directional FLG100LN-2 flag antenna aimed west-southwest installed this afternoon, moved my other unterminated flag to a different spot on the property and it's north-south. On the new wsw flag just heard Charlotte checkers hockey, sounds like game has ended. Ads for NC lottery and an ad for

Re: [IRCA] New Antenna

2011-11-09 Thread brian nsl
;IRCA Hard-Core" Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:45 PM Subject: [IRCA] New Antenna ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are t

[IRCA] New Antenna

2011-11-09 Thread Bill Block
I now have a new antenna its a Super Loop (24x8) pointing toward the North with RG6 Quad coax into a DX Engineering RPA-1 Preamplifier. This new antenna works very well and I have heard one new station today when I heard CHMJ-730. I could not hear CHMJ on any of my other antennas. Bill Bloc

[IRCA] New antenna, one new one

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Renfrew
Jim Renfrew Holley NY 1751 EST960WRFCGAAthensThe RefNEW 1805 EST960WERCALBirminghamRELOG 1812 EST960WEAVNYPlattsburgh Mike O'Meara Show I walked a new wire across the frozen quarry pond next to my house (the other side is not norma

Re: [IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-30 Thread neilkaz
Congrats and good DX with the new antenna. I'm sure someone has allready said that KNBR is ND. 73 KAZ -Original Message- >From: Stephen Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 30, 2008 1:32 AM >To: IRCA Mailing list >Subject: [IRCA] New antenna > >Gang,

Re: [IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-30 Thread Ira Elbert New, III
Georgia Proudly Serving You Since 1964! > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:05:04 -0500 > Subject: Re: [IRCA] New antenna > > Ira, > > On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:46:41 am Ira Elbert Ne

Re: [IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-30 Thread Dennis Gibson
There is no pattern. It's non-directional and was quite strong at the convention in Salt Lake City last summer. 73 - Original Message - Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:32:16 -0500 From: Stephen Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IRCA] New antenna To: IRCA Mailing list G

Re: [IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-30 Thread Stephen Hawkins
Ira, On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:46:41 am Ira Elbert New, III wrote: > Can you pass along the specs? I would love to put something up here for > 160m. Congrats on the catch and the QSO too! > Certainly. I started with 128 feet of wire. My coax turns where it comes out of the side of the hou

Re: [IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-30 Thread Ira Elbert New, III
: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:32:16 -0500 > Subject: [IRCA] New antenna > > Gang, > > I put up an Inverted L for 160M which appears to be working pretty well. I > worked a guy in Alaska with it last Monday with 100watts. > > Tonight I decided to cruise the BCB band with it. >

[IRCA] New antenna

2008-08-29 Thread Stephen Hawkins
Gang, I put up an Inverted L for 160M which appears to be working pretty well. I worked a guy in Alaska with it last Monday with 100watts. Tonight I decided to cruise the BCB band with it. It is, at the moment, 0114 local and I am listening to KNBR 680 from here in Boone, IA. This is the fir

Re: [IRCA] New Antenna

2007-10-31 Thread Bill Block
I failed to reply about antennas for BCB, please email me again.> > 73 KAZ > hoping for another superb Oct 31 SSS session.> > - Original Message - > > From: "Bill Block" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "IRCA Hard-Core" > > Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: [IRCA] New Antenna

2007-10-31 Thread Neil Kazaross
1 SSS session. - Original Message - From: "Bill Block" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IRCA Hard-Core" Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: [IRCA] New Antenna I just got my new KAZ Antenna up about 1 hour ago and so far I am very happy with it. About 90% of

[IRCA] New Antenna

2007-10-31 Thread Bill Block
I just got my new KAZ Antenna up about 1 hour ago and so far I am very happy with it. About 90% of the time I get a better signal with the KAZ than I do with the EWE. On 1300 I get KROP at S-8 on the KAZ and on the EWE I don't get them at all! It will be very interesting to see how well it w

Re: [IRCA] New Antenna Fun

2006-11-12 Thread Barry McLarnon
On Saturday 11 November 2006 19:08, Chris Black wrote: > Barry, Now think what you could do with a flag! Wave it? :-) -- Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irc

Re: [IRCA] New Antenna Fun

2006-11-11 Thread Chris Black
Barry, Now think what you could do with a flag! Chris - Original Message - From: "Barry McLarnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:42 PM Subject:

[IRCA] New Antenna Fun

2006-11-11 Thread Barry McLarnon
A new antenna can be a shot in the arm for DXing, and that certainly has been the case here! In the first month or so since installing my pennant antenna, I've logged 25 new stations (26 if I include a tentative). The pennant has the classic dimensions (14 x 29 x 29 ft), with a fixed 900 ohm t