Re: [IRCA] TECH: [ Mini-KAZ ]

[Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

You may remember our discussion just after I installed the NE EWE. I had never installed one to the NE as I did not think I had the room. Lo and behold the thing worked. It was some years ago when we had that great period of openings to Europe. A bit smaller EWE than I wanted, but the 16X40X16 does work. The directivity out weighs the noise level. At least in my case here. It also works for anything to the NE, lp Canadians, lp US. It brought me in Kallingrad  1215. Moldova 1323, Scotland 810, and even Minot 910. It puts a decent null on Vancouver WA 910 at times. It is the smallest EWE I have and the lowest gain, but it does a pretty good job for what it is. 

Patrick

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:53:18 +0000
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: nhp@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] TECH: [ Mini-KAZ ]
> 
> 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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