[Antennas] BCB Loop Antennas

[Michael P. Olbrisch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan, Kevin [mailto:KevNathan@DSB.WA.GOV]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: 'kd9kc@elp.rr.com'
> Subject: RE: [Antennas] BCB Loop Antennas
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,

Howdy.  Sorry for the delay in answering.  My latest career
is an electronics specialist in the power industry.  My 
current assignment is maintaining the pollution monitoring
system.  We had an outage yesterday, something that we
MUST keep working, and I didn't get home till 3am.  I was
back in at 7am, and just home now.  Yes it is fixed.

I didn't have an answer to your question, and I wanted to
check it out first.  I just did.  Using an ICOM IC-706 MK-I
for the test.

> I looked at one yesterday but here in the Seattle area, 
> they're not on close out yet, apparently because they 
> still wanted $29.95 for it.  

Dunno.  I guess I would pay that for one, but if they are
going down 33% soon, just wait.

> I did have a question though.  I noted a tuning knob on 
> the front of it.  Will it resonate up at 160 or only to the 
> top of the BC band?

Mine quits right at 1700 kHz.  It still seems to have some
directional properties at 1850, but it is not very sensitive.
I suppose it could be modified to work 160m, but out of the
box, the answer is no!

> Thanks much and 73.
> Kevin, K7RX

Thanks for being so patient.  Again, sorry for the delay.

Mike.

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