[OKDXA] SWL Report

[N5OK]

Jeff,

Thanks for the info.  I tried an earlier version and found that it doesn't
work well around metal.  If you have a place out in the middle of an open
field they work well.  My acre is completely enclosed with a 6ft storm
fence.  I've been told that it would never work right for me under
those conditions.  What is your situation?

Coy
Coy C Day, N5OK
20685 SW 29
Union City, OK 73090
H(405) 483-5632 C(405) 448-2368
n5ok at arrl.net


On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:11 AM Jeff Martin <jeffk5we at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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