Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

bpnjensen wrote:

Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

Evacuate? The proper word is 'flee' :-)

On Feb 12, 10:24*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. *It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. *I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. *Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. *What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

A few more sent out - R. Thailand, Radio Dabanga and Radio Australia
via Palau.

On Feb 13, 3:26*am, RHF wrote:
On Feb 12, 10:24*pm, bpnjensen wrote:





Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. *It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. *I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. *Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. *What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

BpnJ,

What Antenna are you using with the MFJ-1026 "Phaser" :
the built-in Whip ? -or- an External Antenna ?

iwtk ~ RHF
*.
*.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

BTW, that little built-in antenna, when I used it briefly, was quite
remarkable on 60m (back during the last sunspot cycle). Since then,
nothing has been much good.

On Feb 13, 9:03*am, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 13, 3:26*am, RHF wrote:





On Feb 12, 10:24*pm, bpnjensen wrote:

Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. *It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. *I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. *Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. *What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

BpnJ,

What Antenna are you using with the MFJ-1026 "Phaser" :
the built-in Whip ? -or- an External Antenna ?

iwtk ~ RHF

Using an A-D DX-Ultra as main antenna (usually) and the new Inverted-L
as the noise antenna. *This works really well everywhere except
between 5 Mhz and 2 MHz, where the DX-Ultra becomes far too
insensitive to be of any value for anything. *On MW, it becomes
sensitive again. *I have no idea whey this is, it's just deaf on the
tropical bands.

Right now, I'd rather have another inverted L *exactly* like the one I
just put up. *That would be a drop-dead killer combo on the MFJ.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Might get a PAR SWL. I have just the place for it, and it might be a
good mate for the Inverted-L. Before that, though, I think I'm going
to take Roy's and Dave's advice and put up the largest loop my yard
can accomodate. That might just work wonders on 60 and even 75m.

On Feb 16, 11:47*am, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 16, 8:15*am, dave wrote:



On 02/16/2011 08:01 AM, bpnjensen wrote:

On Feb 14, 9:15 am, *wrote:
On Feb 12, 10:24 pm, *wrote:

Well, the new inverted-L antenna is grounded and the cable mostly
buried; now I will try to add the RF isolator at the point where the
cable enters the house, and see if that happens.

I have had quite good luck with this antenna, relatively speaking. *It
has lower noise generally than any other antenna I have constructed,
works *very* well on the MFJ-1026 noise canceller along with the DX-
Ultra antenna, and delivers a noticeably stronger desired signal than
the antenna it replaces. *I believe I am still limited by my location,
along the SF bayshore surrounded by hills, and in a RFI soup.

Having said that, I have managed to hear well and send out reception
reports recently for VOIRI Iran; HD2IOA Ecuador; BBC-IO Relay
Seychelles; RN de la RASD, Algeria; and a couple of easier grabs, CVC
1Africa Zambia and BBC Relay Ascension Island. *Also did a retread of
VOA Botswana (why won't VOA even send an e-mail?).

WRTVH is ridiculously helpful with contact information. *What a
resource.

I am pretty pleased...but...For real DX on a regular basis, I think I
have no choice but to evacuate.

A few more sent out - R. Thailand, Radio Dabanga and Radio Australia
via Palau.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Preparing a couple more today - PMA The Cross Radio on 4,755.44 (Super
reception last night! *Huzzah!) and the venerable R. Clube do Para on
4885, also gangbusters (relatively speaking). *The DX is back! *If I
could have stayed up later, would have done a R. East New Britain
(3385) also (at least I believe it was RENB - it sounded like Tok
Pisin as opposed to an Indonesian dialect). *I may try again tonight
or tomorrow.

What fun! :-)

Bruce Jensen

Tropical Bands in the winter. Nothing like it. There's a big HF log
periodic antenna on the East side of the Nimitz, between you and the
Coliseum, that always impressed the **** out of me. I think it's nearer
you as I recall.

- I used to unload trucks at Alameda NAS in a former life.

Ah... Former Lives . . . )

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Hmmm - not the one up north of the Coliseum at Ham Radio Outlet on the
Oakland-Alameda Border? *It's just on the west side of the Nimitz. *I
don't recall anything on the east side, but maybe it's come down since
then.

- It is possible that Family Radio formerly had a
- transmitter site in Oakland that may have used
such an antenna, but I have not checked on that.

No Record of Family Radio having any -non- AM &
FM Facility in Oakland & the SF East Bay 'proper'.


Bruce

I'm about 10 miles south of that spot.

There were a few Large Antenna south of Oakland along
the east-side of the Nimitz : All were/are Licensed Amateur
Radio [Ham] Operators : There were/are no C/C/S/F
Transmitters directly along the Nimitz and visable from
Nimitz from Oakland to San Jose
-afaik- from the 1960s ~ now

The Alameda County Facility was in the San Leandro
Hills and the old Nike Radar/Missile Base around
Cabot Road; after that is Mission Peak. ~ RHF

On Feb 16, 8:47*pm, RHF wrote:

No Record of Family Radio having any -non- AM &
FM Facility in Oakland & the SF East Bay 'proper'.

That's what I thought, but was not sure.

I'm about 10 miles south of that spot.

There were a few Large Antenna south of Oakland along
the east-side of the Nimitz : All were/are Licensed Amateur
Radio [Ham] Operators : There were/are no C/C/S/F
Transmitters directly along the Nimitz and visable from
Nimitz from Oakland to San Jose
-afaik- from the 1960s ~ now

The Alameda County Facility was in the San Leandro
Hills and the old Nike Radar/Missile Base around
Cabot Road; after that is Mission Peak. ~ RHF
*.

I know about each of these installations; I guess I got the impression
- perhaps wrongly - that Dave's big antenna was quite near the Nimitz
as opposed to far up in the hills (which would put them nearer the
MacArthur Freeway).

Right now, Wiedeman Hill, a few spots on Sunol Ridge and Mount Allison/
Monument Peak have large antenna installations, although none are
large log-periodic. Mostly public service and commercial TV/FM/
Microwave/cell repeaters.

My own neighborhood in San Lorenzo has quite a few large amateur
antennas, but none especially visible from any freeway.

On 02/16/2011 10:52 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 16, 8:47 pm, wrote:

No Record of Family Radio having any -non- AM&
FM Facility in Oakland& the SF East Bay 'proper'.

That's what I thought, but was not sure.

I'm about 10 miles south of that spot.

There were a few Large Antenna south of Oakland along
the east-side of the Nimitz : All were/are Licensed Amateur
Radio [Ham] Operators : There were/are no C/C/S/F
Transmitters directly along the Nimitz and visable from
Nimitz from Oakland to San Jose
-afaik- from the 1960s ~ now

The Alameda County Facility was in the San Leandro
Hills and the old Nike Radar/Missile Base around
Cabot Road; after that is Mission Peak. ~ RHF
.

I know about each of these installations; I guess I got the impression
- perhaps wrongly - that Dave's big antenna was quite near the Nimitz
as opposed to far up in the hills (which would put them nearer the
MacArthur Freeway).

Right now, Wiedeman Hill, a few spots on Sunol Ridge and Mount Allison/
Monument Peak have large antenna installations, although none are
large log-periodic. Mostly public service and commercial TV/FM/
Microwave/cell repeaters.

My own neighborhood in San Lorenzo has quite a few large amateur
antennas, but none especially visible from any freeway.

It could be a global geophysical company, oil explorations, etc. They
use HF antennas as well. I'm almost 100% it's between the Berkeley
marina and the NUMMI plant somewhere, directly East of the freeway. No
National Guard Armory? Nuttin?

I have dashboard cam photos somewhere.

In article ,
bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 16, 12:17*pm, dave wrote:
On 02/16/2011 11:47 AM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 16, 8:15 am, *wrote:
....
... Nothing like it. There's a big HF log
periodic antenna on the East side of the Nimitz, between you and the
Coliseum, that always impressed the **** out of me. I think it's nearer
you as I recall. I used to unload trucks at Alameda NAS in a former
life.-

Hmmm - not the one up north of the Coliseum at Ham Radio Outlet on the
Oakland-Alameda Border? *It's just on the west side of the Nimitz. *I
don't recall anything on the east side, but maybe it's come down since
then.

It is possible that Family Radio formerly had a transmitter site in
Oakland that may have used such an antenna, but I have not checked on
that.

I'm about 10 miles south of that spot.

It's military. It looks like a giant ham radio beam with a 5 horsepower
rotator. I have a photo somewhere...- Hide quoted text -

Now that would be a surprise. I know of nothing military offhand on
the east side of the Nimitz (plenty on the west, tho).

Around here, (Seattle), the FAA is fond of big log periodics. (I think
it's back up for the air traffic control system). There used to be one
at Fort Lawton/Discovery Park joint military/ATC radar, and there was
another east on the ridge above Boeing Field.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

On Feb 17, 5:21*am, dave wrote:
On 02/16/2011 10:52 PM, bpnjensen wrote:



On Feb 16, 8:47 pm, *wrote:

No Record of Family Radio having any -non- AM&
FM Facility in Oakland& *the SF East Bay 'proper'.

That's what I thought, but was not sure.

I'm about 10 miles south of that spot.

There were a few Large Antenna south of Oakland along
the east-side of the Nimitz : All were/are Licensed Amateur
Radio [Ham] Operators : There were/are no C/C/S/F
Transmitters directly along the Nimitz and visable from
Nimitz from Oakland to San Jose
-afaik- from the 1960s ~ now

The Alameda County Facility was in the San Leandro
Hills and the old Nike Radar/Missile Base around
Cabot Road; after that is Mission Peak. ~ RHF
* .

I know about each of these installations; I guess I got the impression
- perhaps wrongly - that Dave's big antenna was quite near the Nimitz
as opposed to far up in the hills (which would put them nearer the
MacArthur Freeway).

Right now, Wiedeman Hill, a few spots on Sunol Ridge and Mount Allison/
Monument Peak have large antenna installations, although none are
large log-periodic. *Mostly public service and commercial TV/FM/
Microwave/cell repeaters.

My own neighborhood in San Lorenzo has quite a few large amateur
antennas, but none especially visible from any freeway.

It could be a global geophysical company, oil explorations, etc. They
use HF antennas as well. I'm almost 100% it's between the Berkeley
marina and the NUMMI plant somewhere, directly East of the freeway. No
National Guard Armory? Nuttin?

- I have dashboard cam photos somewhere.

Like to see it when you find it.