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Old April 8th 11, 06:26 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default QSLs received, April 2011

On Apr 7, 4:21*pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
On 4/7/11 17:06 , bpnjensen wrote:









On Apr 7, 2:07 pm, "D. Peter *wrote:
On 4/7/11 13:34 , bpnjensen wrote:


SEYCHELLES: BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station, Mahe Island, 7445, f/d
letter V/s by Herve Cherry in 58 days by airmail; for airmail report
in EE (8 February 2011) + IRC; on letterhead for BBC IORS with aerial
photo. Letter also includes station history and transmitter specs
(Jensen-CA)


Here is a photo:


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...1&id=106517568


* *Now that you've had the new antenna up for awhile, can you give us
an evaluation?


* *p


OK - recall that it is an inverted L 30 feet high and 65 feet long,
fed by ~40 feet of coax in two sections with both a grounded matching
transformer at the base and a 1:1 grounded line isolator where the
coax enters the house (which explains the two sections, one either
side of the isolator). *It runs above the rooftop in a nearly N-S
direction.


It's quite good - on its own it transmits less noise to the radio than
the one it replaces, with a stronger signal, and it often provides a
good match with the DX-Ultra as a phasing antenna for noise
reduction. *Using these two combined, I have been able to capture logs
of audible stations that before were either in the mud or just faint
carriers.


I am very pleased with it; and I would not mind having another
identical to it to run through the MFJ-1026 for noise reduction. *In
order to to do the hardest DX work, though, I will need to get away
from town.


Bruce


* *Very nice work. Thanks for the update. I may try this with my own DX
Ultra at the cabin.

* *p


Hmm - do you have QRM at your cabin? My guess is that, the more rural
(and QRM-free) the setting, the less useful a set of phased antennae
would be. They don't work on atmospheric/QRN noise very well. MFJ and
Timewave says they work on things like lightning crashes, but you'd be
very hard-pressed to twiddle those knobs fast enough to use it for
that purpose.

Having said that, two DX-Ultras phased together for noise abatement
might be just dandy, and they don't require grounding for exemplary
results.

Bruce