[Lowfer] Beacon "IO" QSY to 185299.2

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Craig

1) Beacon VD ran double shield mil spec RG-11 (had it on hand) as a loop conductor with good 
results. Also tried #8 and #12 - results as expected. Choose your resonating capacitors carefully to 
prevent drift in tuning. Found the brown transmitting micas or a number of similar value dipped 
silver micas worked equally well. A small value transmitting style mica compression trimmer tuned 
the antenna to resonance.

2) Don't worry about the loop nay sayers.

3) Stick to the watering hole. We've had as many as 12 stations on one Argo screen. There's plenty 
of room currently.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "craig wasson" <craig at wasson.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Beacon "IO" QSY to 185299.2


> 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   All the lists I found seem to be out of date or missing a lot of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
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike.WE0H" <we0h at gmx.com>
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands"
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Beacon "IO" QSY to 185299.2
>
>
>>A 1750 meter signal into a vertical antenna in the trees will not work
>> any better than a resistor on your bench. Put a TX loop up and you will
>> get a signal out. When my Lowfer rig was on the air at 700 milliwatts
>> output into a Ashlock loop, it could be heard at 162 miles in regular CW
>> day and night. On 1750m loops work in the trees, verticals don't at all.
>>
>> Mike
>
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