Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Got my Quantum Phaser today!

[John Hunter <jshunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the clarification and additional advice on the 5' loops. As for 
the Quantum Phaser ... You'll LOVE it! It's incredible to be able to steer 
your long wires (or loops, vertical) just like turning a portable 
radio,Very to use and I am definitely going to try it out on the 5' loops 
when I get them built sometime in January.  Thanks again for sharing all 
the details of this project with us.
73's
John Hunter
Rossville GA

At 06:30 AM 12/21/2005, you wrote:
> > Sometime after the holidays I am going to build two of Craig Healey's 5 '
> > on a side square copper loops and space them about 90' apart aiming in
> > opposite angles.
>
>What I did with the two 5' loops I made was to make bases so they can be
>placed however I want.  When you make them, be sure to make the two toroids
>identical, especially in the way the windings are put on.  Then, as you put
>them on the tubing, mark it so you can tell which is the same direction.
>Mark an arbitrary front and back.  That way you can set them for either 0°
>or 180° phase difference.
>
>I'm still waiting for the Quantum phaser I ordered, but I have used them
>briefly with the modified MFJ I have.  Seemed to work well spaced a couple
>of hundred feet apart aimed in a line with both facing the same way.  I did
>buy two DX Engineering preamps, but I haven't had time to set it all up to
>test.  I'm waiting for the phaser to arrive and some snow to melt.
>
>Also, when you build the toroids, I think the decoupling chokes per my last
>pictures have merit in noise reduction.  It also seems to balance the
>nulling over a non-choked version.  For a couple bucks worth of ferrite from
>Radio Shack, it's worth it.
>
>Let us know your results.  The Amidon FT-240-77 toroid works well.  I got
>them from Travis LaDuke at 714-850-4660 for nine bucks each.
>
>Craig Healy
>Providence, RI
>




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