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Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag
- From: Mark Pettifor <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:20:52 -0400
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**Anecdotal evidence alert**
I guess I'll risk getting attacked with fruit as well. I got into the AM
DX part of the hobby only two years ago, so I didn't get the memo about
140 feet being too short. I have lots of great catches from here in the
Midwest on the shorter DKAZ made from those instructions, like Colombia,
Venezuela and Nicaragua, a very tentative snippet from Brazil, and I'm
pretty sure I have Tahiti on one of the recordings I made before they
went off the air. (I just have to remember which hard drive it's on...)
For most of that time though I have been using the FLG100LN-2, which I'm
sure makes a difference. I also didn't make it reversible or anything. I
put up a "test" antenna to see how it would perform, using some coax and
my first hand-made transformer (on a toroid my brother had lying about
at his workplace, so I don't even know what material it is), and have
been using it ever since, manually switching it from N-S to E-W. But
like driving a stick shift, you only do it for so long and then you want
an automatic, so I might try to make it reversible (and add a second one
if I can figure out where to put it, to cover all directions).
Mark
On 2018-10-23 10:30 pm, Mark Durenberger wrote:
Hi Don. That D-Kaz paper is being updated but will probably still
suggest
140 feet as a popular length.
(Ducking, expecting incoming bananas from Chuck)
Cheers!
Mark Durenberger
-----Original Message-----
From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Don Moman VE6JY
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:02 PM
To: International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag
http://www.durenberger.com/documents/DKAZ070314.pdf is updated and
still
shows the 140 foot version. I don't see anything more recent.... I
wish I
had. Is there a link? I just built 4 of them last year, one for each
major
direction. I finally have them all hooked up for this season. With the
low
wire they are a great moose catcher! I could have easily made them
higher
but I was just following the instructions. I could have made them
larger as
I have plenty of room. Now not so easy...
Don
VE6JY
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:36 PM Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
As do we all I think. The 140 foot version was abandoned over 5 years
ago as it wasn't cutting it at th low end.
Chuck
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