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Re: [HCDX] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing
Until the sun went to hell in a handbasket I could receive 80M regularly each evening and tropicals almost all the time...The active antenna I have will go down to MW (blowtorches and locals only ) but it is a struggle below 80M any time of the solar spectrum
Things have got to get better or this hobby will lose a lotta newbies real quick
My complements again on your enthusiastic support of a hobby I used to be really involved in . Yours and the posts of a gentleman in Clewiston Fl. keep my dwaining (is THAT a WORD?) interests alive
yodar
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HCDX] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing
To: cumbredx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: pkloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:01 PM
Warm greetings and season greetings !
After the huge success of the PK's Magnetic LW loop antenna, I wonder what
aerial should I use for a forray into the SW tropical bands of 90 and 60 meters.
I was alwas fascinated by broadcast bands used only in some parts of the world
such as LW, OIRT-FM, the tropical bands, the X-band, the Japanese FM band, etc.
because is like being born again into another world.
I receive very few exotic signals on 60m using my Sangean CST-818 connected to
a random wire in our yard of roughly 10 - 20 meters of length... An antenna
dedicated to the tropical bands would be the best gift for me 22nd year of
birthday (with the possible exception of an OIRT-FM tuner since the F2 may
exceptionally reach these frequencies and OIRT-FM F2 skip is much more likely
than Japanese FM F2 skip, let alone CCIR-FM F2 skip) which takes place the next
16th of July, more than 6 months away, but we can even celebrate our
non-birthday according to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll's
caracters.
May the good DX comeback, as condx aren't even half-decent right now !
Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Roxboro (Pierrefonds-est in the eastern border
of Montreal's West Island), QC - PQ
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