Re: [IRCA] Miscou Island Prelim DX Report - Long

["Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Sez what program? Auckland is about 222 degrees from Grayland according to
Geoclock, making it SW.

The 298 for Manila is right on so it would be WNW, Patrick.


Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Neil Kazaross
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 8:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Miscou Island Prelim DX Report - Long

Forgive me for being picky, but the direction from Seaside to Auckland is SE

of you, while the direction to Manila is about 298 degrees or actually a tad

north of WNW !! However, the EWE has a wide cardiod pattern and I just 
modeled your EW in EZNEC and assuming an arrival angle of 10 degrees the 3 
db beamwidth is 140 degrees, so signal arriving from 73 away from beampeak 
will only be down about 3.2 dB according to my modelling. So it is your 
proximity to the sea that is also helping you get Philippine DX.

I've made all kinds of modelling changes to EWE's and there's nothing funny 
happening at least as far as EZNEC can model it.

73 KAZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Martin" <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Miscou Island Prelim DX Report - Long


> Bert,
>
> A little more than that. The antenna has to be terminated to work
> properly. I use a 2.5K ohm pot set at about 900 ohms.  I have several
> ground rods at the termination point. The antenna should be fed with
> coax and a matching transformer. I wrap my own. It is less money and
> they work well. You want to isolate the antenna from the lead in. You do
> not want the lead in to affect the directivity. My 22X100X22 EWE runs to
> the NE and is directional to the SW. Aimed at the Philippines.
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick Martin
> Seaside  OR
> KAVT Reception Manager
>
> 
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