[Lowfer] L-400B Active Antenna installation question???

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 11:59:22 -0400

Hi mitch:

Did you use the large loop w/ the home brew AMRAD converter?  How did it
work out?

Regards,

Tom N8TL

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:11:19 -0400 Mitch Powell <[email protected]>
writes:
> 
> > 
> > Can an active whip antenna be installed in the woods and hear 
> anything??? I
> > have 70 or so foot oak trees here that totally block out the sky 
> view. There
> > aren't any branches from the ground up to about 20 or 30 feet, 
> above that it
> > is thick.
> 
> My AMRAD active ant is mounted on the same pole that you can see on 
> the
> Web site - showing the loop. The 12 ft loop was removed and the 
> active ante
> replaced the loop. So it sure is under a full umbrella of trees.
> Works fine - but find the frequency response not as desired.....
> Fantastic from 400 kHz up through 15 MHz..... but drops off rapidly 
> below
> 400 iHz.
> 
> 73
>  Mitch VE3Ot
> 
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