Re: [IRCA] Miscou Island Prelim DX Report - Long

["Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So the EWE was nothing more than a couple of poles nine feet hight with wire 
strung between them? That sounds like something I could try.

Thanks for the story. I enjoyed reading it.

Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!

I just returned from my brief two-day portion of the Miscou Island, New 
Brunswick DX-pedition.  This is the fifth annual event, and four AM DXers 
were present over the weekend.  Geoff Rivett and I returned home today to 
our homes in New Brunswick.  Niel Wolfish and Ken Alexander each took a week 
of vacation and remain on the Island until Friday, September 30th.  They 
will report and file their logs when they fly back to Ontario next weekend.

Location: Miscou Island on the northern tip of New Brunswick province, in 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 47°59'40"N, 64°32'43"W.  (If you want to fly there 
with Google Earth I'll email you the .kmz file as an attachment).

Antennas: Two Beverages, and one EWE

BEV1:    As a hedge against an active Sun wiping out TA DX for all or part 
of the week, we deployed our longest Beverage along a NNW-SSE axis.  As 
there is little to our north to cause QRM from southern stations, we decided 
not to bother terminating this Beverage.  The distance straight-line 
distance from feedpoint to far end was 1836 feet.  The actual length of the 
wire, allowing for sand dune detours, we closer to 2000 feet.

BEV2:   Our other Beverage was strung at a bearing of exactly 90 degrees 
true, and therefore was aimed directly at Tunisia, central Africa and 
Madagascar.  We terminated this Beverage to reduce QRM from stations to our 
west (which was a stroke of non-genius on my part...see below!).

EWE:   Our third antenna was a EWE, which Ken constructed and brought with 
him on his flight, made of aluminium poles at each end, at a length of 9 
feet each, joined by 16 ga jacketed hookup wire - separated from ground by 
wooden dowels of a few feet in length.  The null end of the EWE was 
terminated with a variable resistor - which was pre-configured after 
computer modeling to be just over 1400 Ohms.  We decided to not fiddle with 
it on the first night.  This turned out to be our BEST antenna, and we were 
astounded with its quietude, while still delivering decent RF levels in to 
our listening post.  It was oriented to try to null local pest CJVA-810 (at 
a bearing of 233-degrees), and did a fairly good job.  The EWE worked so 
well, when Geoff and I left this morning the remaining two DXers on Miscou 
were considering rolling up the 90-degree Beverage altogether, or 
re-deploying it in another direction.


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