[Lowfer] Re: Ashlock's RX Antenna

[Dexter McIntyre W4DEX]

Bill,

You are correct.  I did miss something.  Thanks for the synopsis. 
Looking forward to hearing you results.

Dex

Bill Ashlock wrote:
> 
> Dex,
> 
> >I guess a good receiver with a good active antenna mounted in the >clear
> >would probably receive just as well.  I just don't think an >active antenna
> >out the top of my tallest trees would survive long the >way sparks fly
> >around here when a thunder storm pops up.
> 
> You may have not been following all the mish mage of posting about this tree
> antenna, so I'll recap: This all got started when I found that my std active
> antenna design was overloaded to the Nth degree when I mounted it in a tree
> back in the woods because the signal levels were so strong. (The tree acts
> as a very large conducting body with ~2kohms to gnd). Then I removed the FET
> amp in the probe and installed a 10 to 1 transformer and found there was
> plenty of signal to meet the MDS level of the R-75 (so no amount of
> amplification would help in receiving weak signals). Now there's no IM of
> the strong stations against the week ones, typical of a broadband active
> e-probe (particularly from the strong AM stations in this area), AND I have
> never seen such a low neighborhood 'trash noise' factor, which has always
> been a problem here. Right now I'm doing an A/B test against my amplified
> woods loop antenna and I'm suspecting the tree probe will do a better job.
> Will let you know.
> 
> Bill
> 
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