[Lowfer] Beacon "IO" QSY to 185299.2

[Mike.WE0H]

The blog sounds like a useful idea. To save argument, just do a 50' x 
50' TX loop. #12 wire or larger including the coax as you mentioned will 
work well. TX loops work well when there are trees in the area. I did a 
3 year comparison with a vertical hanging in 70' oak trees, and a #8 
wire TX loop installed by Bill Ashlock himself, in the same trees. The 
loop made the vertical look like a dummy load in all temperatures above 
32F. The vertical started to show a signal measured at 75 miles when the 
temp went below 32F then was comparable to the TX loop when it was near 
10F and lower. The signal was also measured in Arizona which was near 
1000 miles away. There was a bit over 3000' of ground radials along with 
many ground pipes under that vertical. The loading coil was a basket 
wound coil Lyle K0LR wound himself. Jay W1VD donated the #8 wire for 
that loop.

That is what I base my opinion upon for a 1750 meter transmitter and 
antennas around trees. You'll be happy with the the TX loop. It will work.

Mike
WE0H



craig wasson wrote:
> I'm starting to believe that comparison to a resistor.  My signal on the 
> antenna was not much better than the dummy load.
> 
> This weekend I'll try the suggestions and a few new things I've learned. 
> I'll see if I can improve things a bit with proper tuning, straightening the 
> antenna a bit and a few ground radials.  But my main effort will be 
> switching to a loop.
> 
> How many on here are using loops vs verticals?   From what I've read having 
> a good conductor is key to making loops work - I'm going to start with a 
> co-ax cable loop.
> 
> Is it still generally accepted that a hollowed out 15m square is within the 
> rules?  In other words a loop 15m on a side?  I will move my signal down .1 
> Hz too since I am pretty close to SIW.  When reception is bad SIW looks a 
> lot like IO too.
> 
> There is so much activity around the watering hole it's hard to find an 
> empty spot.  It's also hard to keep up on who is where now by reading past 
> messages.  Has anyone attempted to keep an up to date list of who is on what 
> freq?   All the lists I found seem to be out of date or missing a lot of 
> stations.   Ideally there ought to be some sort of blog based list that 
> people can update in real-time.
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions!
> 
> Craig - N6IO