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Re: [IRCA] TECH: [ Mini-KAZ ]
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] TECH: [ Mini-KAZ ]
- From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:53:18 +0000
Hi Patrick,
A similar discussion was going on over on the Medium Wave Circle
List, and here's my experience of "larger" vs. "smaller" as reported there:
Even if you feel you don't have much of a local electrical noise
problem, I speculate, from my own experience, that pickup of noise on the
feedline may be enough to raise the noise floor subtly to cover up
the weaker DX when using an antenna with lower output. For several years, I
preferred a large corner fed loop to my standard sized Flag because
it could dig out the overseas DX better with its superior signal strength
output, even though it didn't have as good a null or was as
quiet. But after I started using the FLG100 on the Flag, it easily
matched the corner
fed in signal readability on overseas signals. (and using the
FLG100 on the corner fed just made everything louder).
(a bonus is that the Flag is now pretty good on longwave too) The
usual "your mileage may vary"....
best wishes,
Nick
At 07:56 10-12-13, you wrote:
I know with the EWE antennas, the higher the vertical element the
better. My old SW EWE has 25' elements and it has always worked
great. The NE EWE has 16 foot elements and does not have near the
gain, but that is all I can do to the NE.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager
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