Re: [IRCA] Arizona TP's for 2-16-13; brief Victoria version

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Nick,

Thanks to you and Colin for giving the 5" FSL a try in TP-DXing with the ICF-2010 this morning.

<<<   We were able to hear a couple of the big guns well at times 
(JOUB-774 and HLAZ-1566, though the FSL didn't seem to tune that 
high), and even a carrier on 639, and quite a good one on 891.  The 
FSL was comparable to the one meter on a side box loop, but a little 
less responsive to local noise, which I believe were Gary's 
findings.   >>>

To be honest, high-band tuning (such as for 1566-HLAZ) can be tricky on an FSL, which has a razor-sharp tuning system (especially on the upper frequencies). In retrospect, I probably should have shipped the model to Colin with a larger-diameter tuning knob, which helps significantly in adjusting the upper band frequencies. By the way, Colin's 5" FSL model was featured in a daytime DX demonstration video, receiving (of course) 1070-CFAX. The consensus was that the FSL model was far more photogenic than the video narrator.

73, Gary


 


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 9:34 am
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Arizona TP's for 2-16-13; brief Victoria version


My impression also was that conditions were down somewhat, but I 
didn't DX with quite the same dedication this morning, as Colin 
Newell was over with his DeBockian FSL and we were running various 
comparisons using the ICF2010, and with various computers shut down.

Were were able to hear a couple of the big guns well at times 
(JOUB-774 and HLAZ-1566, though the FSL didn't seem to tune that 
high), and even a carrier on 639, and quite a good one on 891.  The 
FSL was comparable to the one meter on a side box loop, but a little 
less responsive to local noise, which I believe were Gary's 
findings.    The FLG100 corner-fed loop into the 2010's antenna jack 
caused overload, until we hit the DX-local switch, but that combo 
inhaled the DX somewhat better yet.

We then fired up the computers, hooked up the corner fed to the SDRs, 
and there might have been a slight sunrise enhancement around 1510UT, 
when we could hear things like 594, 747, 972, 1278, 1575 which hadn't 
been there a few minutes before.  But I would guess the best signal 
levels were before 1500UT

best wishes,

Nick




At 14:21 16-02-13, you wrote:
>Listened from 1350-1420 utc and conditions were down from yesterday 
>with weak carriers on 594, 693, 774 and 1566.
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>1566  HLAZ heard at 1407 utc with talk and just above the noise level
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>Bill Block
>Prescott Valley, AZ
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