Re: [IRCA] 909 1215 etc

[Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you want a DKAZ for LW you likely need to make it something like 30 ft x
250 ft or even bigger. Tim Tromp's DKAZ is 117 ft x 20 ft (all the room he
has) and he really likes it into shortwave. F/B does degrade some and the
beam widens somewhat and preferred arrival angle rises compared to BCB, but
I can certainly see where it could be quite useful and maybe the arrival
angle is good for SW often.

73 KAZ

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Agree with Don that on LW, the DKAZ is a poor performer.  In Masset, it's
> only Iceland that's a reasonable target in the evening.  My mini-Beverage
> (about 450') is far better.  Both pointed due north.  73,...Walt
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > As we all know it's good to have antenna choices.  There haven't been too
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> > what is happening but it certainly is a useful choice to have.  It also
> > gets used on much higher mid HF frequencies and can sometimes produce
> > significantly better signals than any of my other choices for these
> > frequencies , mainly the Wellbrook ALA100 and some large HF log
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> >   The pattern seems to be reversed up that high in frequency, which seems
> > reasonable that it would be. It is not a good performer on longwave.
> Altho
> > I did get the posts in and the trenching etc all done last fall, I did
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> > essentially NE SE SW and NW.   That should be done this summer.  This
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> > used to have a HiZ 8 vertical array which proved to be less useful than I
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> > > Nice to see that you built a DKAZ. Interesting that it was doing better
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> > > Are you pleased in general with the DKAZ?   73 KAZ
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> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > > > at 0600  1089 and 1215 have significant carriers... but only on the
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> > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Nigel Pimblett <nige2730@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > > > > Very feeble here.  855, 882 and 909 are the only ones readily
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> > > > > On 29/02/2016 10:30 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
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> > > > >> Some TA carriers this evening..
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> > > > >> 909 is the strongest so far, but have had 1215, 855, 1089 and 1107
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