Re: [IRCA] S. AZ Tuesday TP

[Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is good to hear. Hopefully you can find a few dB better back nulls
with some checking and tweaking. Of course make certain that the bottom
wires are a couple of feet above ground at all times when using.    73 KAZ

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Steve Ratzlaff <ratzlaffsteve@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I built an E/W (null to the east) dual delta terminated KAZ loop two days
> ago, thanks to the Duremberger paper and to advice from KAZ himself, two
> days ago and have tested it the past two mornings, hoping to get some MW TP
> reception. Monday morning had terrible conditions but this Tuesday morning
> had presumed-1566 HLAZ briefly fade up to medium (easy copy) level, totally
> dominating the channel and driving the strong local Tucson station QRM down
> to inaudibility, peaking at 1250 utc. It had been poorly heard for 15
> minutes before, and soon faded away completely after that. A number of weak
> hets on other channels but nothing but HLAZ producing audio. A check with
> my previous main antenna, an active whip, had HLAZ buried in the local
> domestic AMBC QRM, so it does appear the DKAZ did what it's supposed to do.
> I'm south and west of Tucson about 15-20 miles but I couldn't erect the
> loop for best nulls that direction but I'm still seeing decent nulls. So
> I'm happy with the initial results for TP reception. I also DX LF NDBs and
> am finding this loop to be an excellent performer at LF too
>
> Steve Ratzlaff AA7U
>
> near Sahuarita, AZ (about 10 miles west in the desert)
>
> Icom R75, basic DKAZ loop (140' base, two 22' masts, #18 wire,
> potentiometer for termination, Wellbrook FLG-100)
>
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