[Lowfer] 1704 on the money and QRSSing

[Bill Ashlock]

>Man... now you got me all bummed out...

Not uncommon for loop neophytes! Ask Mikes S and R about this. <GG> I think 
I'm lucky NOT have had the regular class of Ham Antenna Indoctrination 101.

>I may just take a bunch of #12 and make a  Fat dipole out of it.
>Build a cage out of a bunch of vertical strands tied together at the top 
>and
>bottom.  Stick a little top hat up there.
>Then go to home depot and spend my lifesavings on chicken wire.

That doesn't seem like 'giving-up' to me!

>I put my LF current probe100turns/100 ohm on the loop to try and measure
>voltage, for relative purposes. There is about .2 to .3 volts  volts on the 
>antenna
>even without a coax attached to it.

Oh Geez; what a riot! That's .2 to .3 Amps worth of loop current when 
connect as a TX loop. Can you rotate the loop to null that out while making 
TX measurements?

>It must be from the local 610 Khz  station.

>1704 will be up for a few days anyway to see what happens.

Didn't see anything last night at 1704k. Can you measure your far-field 
radiation? I'm building a down- converter/E-probe for this - which I'm going 
to need pretty quick. You see, I need the confidence that "I'm getting out 
of the back yard" (Ham term?) before I announce to the world......  That way 
it appears that everything from WA land works 100% <G>

Bill A

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