[IRCA] Mini-Beverage versus the ALA100 Hula loop

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More Data will follow today and I go over my notes and
charts.

Location: Central Saanich, B.C. (20km N.W. of Victoria B.C. Canada)
Antennas - 450ft LW terminated at the North end. ALA100 HulaLoop
Receiver - Drake R8

Suffice to say that, while the dial was slightly
disturbed (after about 1430UTC) -- the tuning
period of about 1330UTC-1350UTC (Mobile w/ JVC
receiver tuned to the ASIA-EURO 9khz plan)
and on the beverage + ALA100 from 1355 - 1520
was very interesting...
Perhaps more from a personal perspective, I was
relieved to find that my double-turn 4.5' Hula
coil attached to the ALA100 performed "as well"
as the 450 foot wire (less about 2-5db band top-bottom)
and did REALLY well upper-band, unlike how it performs
at the Apartment QTH.

I did mention that while driving the 30 minutes (18km)
to the antenna site, I tuned the likes of 738, 747, 756,
774, 963, 972 etc, some yielding audio (even though the
JVC Car Radio [am-fm-sirius ] is set somewhere around
6khz BW. All of the hets were obvious - some impressively
so. Antenna for the car-receiver is an "in-glass" coil
on  the rear window.

Off the top of my head - stand-outs this morning were
SQM-529 at an 8 or 9.  Very little to speak of between
576 and 594. Things started to take off at 675 with
Vietnam in for the duration. The usuals on 738, 747, 756, 774, 828, 855,
and then signals took a HUGE jump at 936, 945, 963 (8), 972 (8), lots
of stuff between 1017 and 1070 (need notes!), 1134, 1143, 1197,
lots of stuff beyond that...
The whole band was quite balanced...

Stunning audio on 774khz (JJ), 945, 963(RR), 972(KK), 1287, 1566(KK) and 1575(Thailand)
The ALA100 averaged a couple of db below the average levels of the 450ft LW

--
Colin Newell
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