Our astronmer friend is cleaning house in preperation to moving
to NZ. She loaned me a couple of older books. "The Handbook of
Solar Flare Monitoring and propagation forcasting" , by Carl
M Cherman is fascinating.

One antenna is too interesting to ignore.

The MLA-2/B loop anenna is deigned to be used from
3~25MHz for both RX and TX operations. It is based
on "an impedence transfomer from a 50 Ohm transmission
line to the nominal 377 ohm resistance of free space."

The publishd pattern is very interesting. A quick net
search didn't bring anything up. It was made by
Antenna Research Associates of Beltsville MD.
I have visited their web site and sent a Email.

I was just wondering if anyone in the group had run
into this odd antenna. It is reported to have "the
performance of a half wave antenna with a device
no larger then 54 inches". If accurate this could
be a usefull antenna.

Another oldie but goodie is J.A. Ratcliff's "Sun
Earth and Radio". The Copyright date is 1970 but
the information is still of interest to anyone
who uses HF radio. I had heard of this book and
tried to locate one for a longtime.

Terry

Hmmm. I visited their website too at www.ara-inc.com. It's very
interesting. Check out the ALC-1302 loop antenna.

Steve

sdanie... wrote:
Hmmm. I visited their website too at www.ara-inc.com. It's very
interesting. Check out the ALC-1302 loop antenna.

Steve
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I really need to find a winning lottery ticket to buy all the neat toys
out there!
Too many toys, not enough money.

I may have a line on a MLA-2B. A friend of a frined has one he never
has used.

Let the wheeling and dealing begin.

Terry

wrote:
Hmmm. I visited their website too at www.ara-inc.com. It's very
interesting. Check out the ALC-1302 loop antenna.

Steve

I suspect their price range is "business & military-only-type prices"

yodar

You would be supprised at the great Military stuff you can buy real
cheap if you look around enough.Pennies on the dollar.
cuhulin

All them Military wimmins insissted on being "free".It was them civilian
wimmins that costed me.
cuhulin

Yodar wrote:

I suspect their price range is "business & military-only-type prices"

yodar
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VERY PRICEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But built like a cross between a Rolls Royce and a Tank.
The MLA-2/B I picked up today is awesome. If the thing
works as good as it is built I will have fun. The owner even
has, or at least had, the tech manual that goes into all the
theory. I think I could almost build one of these. The guy
bought it for 25$ at Dayton about 30 years ago. If it works
I intend to trade him a spare Pro2067 for it.

Bad and nasty Tstorms have moved in so I am not even firing
any of my radio gear up. If I get the manual I will scan and
forward to RHF for inclussion in the files section.

So many toys, so little time.

Terry

Back in the 1940's,Rolls Royce had a factory in
Massatwobumps.(Massachutssets) (look it up if y'all dont believe me)
That factory in Massatwobumps was useing American made wireing
(harnesses) and differentials and some other American made thingys.(I
have a book here about that) The American made Rolls Royce cars were
much more dependable and reliable and they didn't break down.The
"official" Rolls Royce story (look at what happened when Jaguar merged
with Ford in America) in limeyland was they just weren't selling enough
Rolls Royce cars in America.Back in the 1920's and 1930's,Mercedes Benz
(Lawd,,I wanttttt a Marcedez Benzzzzzz) (not me!) and Fiat had factories
in New York and Chevrolet and Harley Davidson had factories in China and
Ford had factories all over the World back in the Ford T model days.I
have a book here about that to.That married Irish woman wayyyy over
yonder across the big pond whom I email chat with lives about seven
miles from the Rolls Royce,Godwood,England factory.brits dont know s..t
about how to build cars.Hey,Rooster Cogburn movie is fixin to start on
tb now,,, I am outta herrreeee,,,,,,
cuhulin

www.devilfinder.com tiny tenna Complaints Check it out y'all.y'alls
buddy Lloyd Davis got a no good non working tiny tenna too.
cuhulin

In article .com,
wrote:

So, I found out today what the ALC-1302 loop antenna costs. Would
anyone care to venture a guess? (Hint: Aim high....)

$3K US

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Telamon
Ventura, California