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WANTED ACTIVE AM LOOP ANTENNA
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WANTED Palomar am loop ,Radio+ Quantom AM loop or similar active (preamplified ) am broadcast band loop antenna .contact David N4XCE at 1-251-478-8823 or ------------------------------- I own a McKay Dymek DA5 and have compared it in a side by side test to the Palomar. Both do a credible job. However from research for a friend I think the Kiwa loop will perform much better. See the link at: http://www.kiwa.com/pktloop.html See the reviews at:http://www.kiwa.com/review.html I would love to try one of these heads up against my DA5, but based on these reviews and some others that I have read, I think the Kiwa is much better. A friend moved to central KA and wanted to listen to WHAS in Lossyville KY. He was going to buy one when he found WHAS is available via the web. Terry |
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cuhu wrote:
I never heard of Lossyville,KY before.I used to listen to WHAS out of Louisville,Kentucky when I was at Fort Knox,Kentucky and I can pick up WHAS on any of my radios pretty good at night time,I am about 479 miles South of Louisville,Kentucky. cuhulin --------------------------------------------------- There is a mild inter city rivil between Lexington and Louisvile. Hence the nasty name calling. Louisville has a great zoo, a great art museum and that is about it. People are nasty and surely and drive even worse then the fools here in Lexington. Terry |
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John Plimmer wrote:
Kiwa MW Loop - see http://www.dxing.info/equipmen t/kiwa_mw_loop_plimmer.dx -- ------------------ Have you ever used a McKay Dymek DA5, or DA7 or the Polamar loop? The DA5 has a ~12" feritte bar and the DA7 has an ~18" feritte bar. While here in the USA we have a "lot" of MW stations, Europe is much worse. A friend spent a year in Europe, in France near Germany, and her DX398 was nearly useless on MW. Here in the USA most MW are relativly low power. I have a MW on 770KHz about 3 miles from me that is the bane of my existance. It sneaks into nearly everything. The only good part is they are daylight only and they cleaned up the TX last winter. They had nasty spurs all over the MW band. The spurs were at the same spot on receivers with different LO/IF chains. The DA5 does a usefull job of nulling out offending stations, not perfect but given the typical garbage on MW here these days I seldom listen. I am currently intrigued by a 10W "Traffic Information Station" that is ~20 miles away, working into a 20' vertical antenna with a poor ground system that I am receiving S3 after some improvements to my ground system. Terry |
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wrote in message oups.com... The DA5 has a ~12" feritte bar It's been quite awhile since I had mine open but the actual bar in mine was only 8 or 9 inches long. What really surprised me was that the coil on the bar had very few turns, maybe 4 or 5. RM~ PS, I do have the schematic of the amp. |
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I have been to Louisville,Kentucky a few times before.Louisville is a
great City,I have never been to Lexingon,Kentucky before though,I am sure it is a great City too,all of the Cities and Towns in U.S.A.are Great.I have been to Lexington,Mississippi a lot of times before when I drove a delivery van for Pony Express Courier company,(I once got a speeding ticket just South of Grenada,Mississippi,that Mississippi Highway Patrol guy was sitting there in his car by some trees on I-55 just waiting on me) I delivered tractor parts to a tractor company in Lexington on my route.I knew you meant Louisville when you said Lossyville. www.devilfinder.com Louisville Kentucky cuhulin |
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Rob Mills wrote:
It's been quite awhile since I had mine open but the actual bar in mine was only 8 or 9 inches long. What really surprised me was that the coil on the bar had very few turns, maybe 4 or 5. RM~ PS, I do have the schematic of the amp. -------------------------------------- Based the size on my flawed memory.It has been seveal years since I had mine open. I agree with the few number of turns. Before I could afford to buy a used one, I bought a core from McKay-Dymek for something like $5(shipping included!) back in ?1972? or so. I worked part time in a repair shop and one came in with a blown transformer and after I repaired it, I wanted one. As a college student I couldn't affoard a new one. My copy worked about 85% as well as the real one for about 5% of the cost. I was e-mailed the diagram for the active DA100 earlier this year and was very underwealmed by the clone's performance. The North Country active antenna is better and the AmRad active antenna is light years better. Given how well the DA5 worked I had hjoped teh DA100 would be in the same league. A friend has just bought a new DA100-E and will bring it over this afternoon for me to compare to my AmRad and North Country actives. Terry |
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------------------------------- I own a McKay Dymek DA5 and have compared it in a side by side test to the Palomar. Both do a credible job. However from research for a friend I think the Kiwa loop will perform much better. See the link at: http://www.kiwa.com/pktloop.html See the reviews at:http://www.kiwa.com/review.html I would love to try one of these heads up against my DA5, but based on these reviews and some others that I have read, I think the Kiwa is much better. A friend moved to central KA and wanted to listen to WHAS in Lossyville KY. He was going to buy one when he found WHAS is available via the web. Terry I own both the KIWA and a McKay/Dymek DA-7 (which is the same as the DA-5, except that it also covers longwave), and I can attest that the KIWA is eminently superior. --Guy Thurston, OR |
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You might also consider the AOR LA320. Universal has them in closeout. I have had excellent luck with this one. It has 4 interchangeable loops, which cover LW, MW. 1.6 MHZ, 5-15 MHZ.
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Guy Kudlemyer
I own both the KIWA and a McKay/Dymek DA-7 (which is the same as the DA-5, except that it also covers longwave), and I can attest that the KIWA is eminently superior. --Guy Thurston, OR ----------------------- Do you have a diagram of the DA7? I had always thought it's main claim to fame was a longer feritte rod. TheDA5 diagram is very simple. It would be nice if it is easy to modify the DA5 to co er LF as well. Terry |
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