[OKDXA] SWL Report

[Jeff Martin]

Good Morning OKDXA...
  I've been playing with a receive antenna for the low bands. It is an Array
Solutions model AS-SAL-20. It is a Shared Apex Loop Array. It consists of 4
triangle wire loops coming down from a 24 ft fiberglass mast in the NE, NW,
SE, SW directions. There is a controller that switches these around and/or
adds them together. You can select 8 different directions. The footprint is
fairly small for a receive antenna, guy stakes are placed about 26 feet out
in the 4 directions from the mast. It is feed with RG6 coax. 
  This morning I left the radio monitoring FT8 on 1.840 MHz with it aimed
NW. Between 1141Z and 1255Z I decoded the following DX: JR1LJZ, JA9FPI,
RT0F, JH7RXU, JH7BDS, JJ1TEA, JA1OVD, NL8F, JA0MVW, JA7CSS, JH0RVY, JJ0MPK,
JL1XAL, JA1DUH, JH0BQX, JE7GXQ, JA9NFO, JA2HYD, JR1BAS, JA0FVU, JH4ADV,
JA4FSH, JA9PPC, JA4KDT, JH0NOS, JA7KPI, JH7BDS, 7K2PZG, JH0INP, JA1DMX,
JQ1COB, JH1CZK, JI1DCW, JH0RVY, & JA2NDQ. I've also worked some of the
recent African DXpeditions on the lower bands. Many times I could not hear
them on the dipole but could on the RX antenna. So, it seems to work! With
the small footprint, it might be worth taking on DXpedition...

73,
Jeff - K5WE