[IRCA] WNW EWE

2007-05-06 Thread Patrick Martin
Greetings everyone, Some of you that visited my place last Fall might remember that last leg of that Shore Pine tree that was in the backyard behind the satellite dish. Well, that tree is history now. I had a tree climber come in yesterday and cut it down. With my neighbors moving along with

[IRCA] WNW EWE antenna update

2007-04-24 Thread Patrick Martin
After moving the antenna few more degrees to the NW, I find I even have a better null on Portland. Add the phaser and the SW EWE in the equation, putting a great phase on the South/SW, Portland is very weak during the day and not much better at night. Leaving the NW/N/NE wide open. Canadians were

[IRCA] WNW EWE

2007-04-21 Thread Patrick Martin
After a couple people at the IRCA convention last Fall, that came buy my place, the SE leg on the WNW EWE was not straight up and down vertically, and they mentioned it. I went out and climbed the tree and moved the leg over farther and now it is much better. That leg is not easy to get at 25