[Lowfer] XSR tonite

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:29:08 -0400

Peter,the ALA100 is a Wellbrook antenna and I have it positioned along the
edge of a wooded area behind the house.It has legs of about 8mtrs and I have
to loops -one mounted N-S and the other E-W.I simple move the antenna head
unit when I switch.The lower portion of the loop is about 2 mtrs above
ground and the other legs of the loop use some trees for attachments.
The Amrad antenna is mounted on a chimney part of the house and is basically
in the clear and about 10 mtrs high.The Amrad does work rather nice for a
general type receiving antenna but on the quick checks that I did make the
loop was really much better--4-5 S units on a couple of LF signals in the
60Khz-180Khz.So maybe moving the Amrad to different locations and heights
may show different results,but that is more work than I want to do now ..
de Lloyd W3NF FM19MH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Barick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] XSR tonite


> Lloyd,
>
> Interested on your comparisons to the AMRAD ant., you say the loop is
> preferred. I'm not fimilar w/ the ALA100.
>
> 1) What is the loop's size in the ALA100, and is it used at the
> operating position? outside? high/low?
>
> 2) Where was the AMRAD mounted, low or high (how high above large
> objects?) ?
>
> Thanks, Peter, EN51px
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> >>> [email protected] 09/17/02 09:10PM >>>
> I have been without a decent lowfer antenna when my ALA100 loop amp
> failed
> but just got it back and the first thing that I captured tonite about
> 0117z
> was XSR on 166.5 with a nice signal.Will be looking for others now that
> all
> is back up and working.I might note that I had built up the AMRAD
> active
> antenna and was using it for general listening.It seemed to work Ok but
> once
> I had the loop back and working it was rather amazing the
> difference-with
> the loop far the better ...but will continue to make checks on both now
> that
> I have both..
> de Lloyd W3NF FM19MH
>
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