Re: [HCDX]: K9AY antenna

[Mauno Ritola <ritola@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11.55 11.7.1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Mauno Ritola wrote: 
>> At 08.19 5.7.1999 -0700 Paul Ormandy wrote:
>> >Thank you. I am using an EWE antenna now. I am wondering if I could use
>> >just one K9AY loop with the directional pattern aimed to the SW
>> >(Pacific). If this would work as well as the EWE I am using?
>> 
>> I don't think so.

>Why not? Are you referring to the performance capability of the K9AY
>loop vs. the EWE? Or, are you implying that a single loop by itself
>won't function well.
>I've never used the EWE, so I can't comment on that, but I believe Jean
>Burnell is using a single loop K9AY as opposed to my  duals (two loops
>at right angles). 

Maybe I was a bit hasty with my comments, because it seems now that
everything is not OK with my K9AY. But I think it was working OK in the
beginning (before it was damaged by a rather far-away lightning). Based on
that experience I would say that the signal levels were so low and the
directional patterns so unnoticeable that I wonder if K9AY (single or dual)
could beat EWE(s). I hope that next spring I have to admit that I was
totally wrong. Looking forward to hearing Patrick Martin's opinion.

73, Mauno
Finland
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