[IRCA] New e100 Article Uploaded

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just uploaded a two-page article "The Slider e100 as a 
Varicoupler" to the Ultralight Files area of DXer.ca  The article is 
a companion to Gary DeBock's EXCELLENT article analyzing Four 
Variants of the e100 as a DXing tool. My short article describes 
connecting the ferrite bar of the Slider e100 to outside antennas and 
using the properties of the Slider to create a very narrow RF window 
through which to seek weak signals with the e100. This article is of 
special interest to people operating the e100 in an urban environment.

I was very pleased with my strategy of connecting my exterior 
antennas directly to the stock loopstick of the e100 (as detailed in 
other articles) as long as I was DXing from my rural location in 
northern Oklahoma or at the really isolated Grayland 
beaches.  However, when I got to our summer cottage just south of 
Vancouver, BC, the e100 overloaded so badly in the RF cesspool here 
that it was literally unusable. However, about three weeks ago, 
comments by Steve Ratzlaff and Gary DeBock about using the Slider 
e100 as a "preselector" to cut down overloading finally sunk 
in....  I hooked my Slider e100 to my big antennas at the cottage and 
the difference was literally night and day. Instead of having a 
totally unusable mish-mash of babble, I had a DXable band... right in 
the heart of RF Vancouver.  In seven days, I logged almost 50 
Trans-Pacific stations using the Slider as a Varicoupler to hook the 
e100 to my Wellbrook Phased Array and my 70' x 100' Conti Super 
Loops.  My article outlines that use of the Slider e100.

Gary's great article and my little two pager pretty well detail 
everything we have developed up here on the e100.... so far. There 
may still be a bit more to come.
Gary's article already has 40 hits in the first 24 hours... If you 
haven't downloaded it for your files already, its highly recommended.

John B.
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, Slider E100
Antennas: Wellbrook Phased Array NW
Two 70' x 100' Conti Super Loops, West and Northwest  
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