Re: [IRCA] Friday night TA/ Beverage antenna

[Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

Patrick, I would highly recommend the Wellbrook ALA 100 series of magnetic loops.  You have the space.  Erecting one in about a 40 to 60' diameter and oriented to Europe would enhance your LW (and even the bottom of the MW band) enormously.
I have the big Conti loops at my place, but the ALA outperforms them by a long shot up to and including 531 kHz.  It's somewhat pricey, but well worth it.  There are a lot of ALA 100s in Victoria....highest per capita in the world ;-)  !!!!......Walt.

At 12:44 PM 1/24/2009, you wrote:


>Yes, TA activity on LW was good. I wish I did not have the noise level
>there though on LW, but it could be worse. I did find out that the 1500'
>Eastern beverage has a pretty decent lobe for TAs, where it doesn't work
>on MW TAs. Apparently the wire is too long aimed at 75 degrees to work
>on MW TA's. It was suggested a shorter wire running next to the beverage
>going East, so that might be an option, if a shorter wire would not
>affect the directivity of the 1500 footer. I sure don't want to mess up
>the directivity of the beverage for great domestic DX.  I'll have to
>fiqure out what percentage 150-300 khz matches to 1500 feet and maybe
>use that same method on the length of a wire next to the beverage for MW
>TA use. That is a thought, since the beverage does do a nice job with
>TA's. Does anyone have any thoughts on that idea? 
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>
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