Re: [IRCA] Electronically steerable receive antenna

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

That looks like a neat little company, they also have a phaser that's 
nominally good from .3-30 mhz., not the cheapest stuff in the world though. 
I'm going to look at the details of the four square tomorrow.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma


>From: AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW)
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>Subject: [IRCA] Electronically steerable receive antenna
>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:00:41 -0700
>
>In the December issue of QST magazine I noticed an ad for a company
>called DX Engineering. They are marketing a compact electronically
>steerable system of four ground mounted vertical antennas that looks
>very interesting. It is called the Four-Square Receiving System. They
>claim performance comparable to a Beverage plus rejection of high angle
>signals that is superior to EWE, Flag, Pennant, or K9AY arrays. The
>system is targeted to the ham market. But the ads claim operation from
>100 kHz to 30 MHz. They say that it is "like having a rotatable Beverage
>antenna". It does not require radials or any special ground system.
>Basic cost is $1,325. Their web site is at www.DXEngineering.com. There
>is also a user comment page at www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5336.
>
>Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO
>http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/
>http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/
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