[Lowfer] QRSS 60 tonight along with the boys on 137.7

Garry Hess k3siw at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 30 19:53:23 EST 2013


Hi Steve,

The capture was made using an eprobe up 10' in the back yard away from 
the house. The 10' loop is also away from the house in another location 
and currently is being used to decode wsprx-15 on 474.2 kHz, USB. Aimed 
NE I see 4 stations active so far.

So far it's held up fine (temperatures have been below zero three times 
so far here this winter) and doesn't really flex much because I have a 
stiffener on the vertical section near the bottom. Ropes keep the loop 
reasonably plane too even in 50 mph winds. I decided to try PVC rather 
than a wooden frame because I don't like to paint, hi! I'm using an 
LNA/dc coupler after your design. I may be losing a bit of sensitivity 
running directly to an SDR-IQ so plan to add some gain in the shack to 
see if that's true or not.

-- 
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL


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