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Kiwa MW Air-Core Loop Antenna {In-the-News} FS / FA
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...f1b3ecf7fb3f60 Hello Everyone - In-Search-Of-A : Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna For One and All, Once again here is another one of the Legendary Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna's on eBay eBay Auction Item # 9712004478 http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ9712004478 The Opening Bidding is $599 with a Buy-It-Now Price of $749 Plus a Shipping and Handling Cost of $30 . This eBay Auction Closed without a Bid {SECRET SALE ? } FWIW - The Highest eBay Auction Price so far paid for a Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna has been $795 plus S&H. NOTICE : This is NOT my Auction and I am NOT Associated with the eBay Seller. PLEASE NOTE : That this Message is being Posted for Informational Purposes Only. know your seller and something about what they are selling. as always - buyer beware - life is a gamble and so is ebay ~ RHF |
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For One and All,
Once again here is another one of the Legendary Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna's on eBay. eBay Auction Item # 9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/KIWA-MW-Loop-Ant...temZ9720355600 The Opening Bidding is $600 with a Buy-It-Now Price of $725 Plus a Shipping and Handling Cost : To Be Determined . Location of Seller is : Edmonton, AB, Canada This eBay Auction Ends on : 7 de Mayo 2006 @ 16:51:40 PDT FWIW - The Highest eBay Auction Price so far paid for a Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna has been $795 plus S&H. NOTICE : This is NOT my Auction and I am NOT Associated with the eBay Seller. PLEASE NOTE : That this Message is being Posted for Informational Purposes Only. know your seller and something about what they are selling. as always - buyer beware - life is a gamble and so is ebay ~ RHF |
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In article .com,
"RHF" wrote: For One and All, Once again here is another one of the Legendary Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna's on eBay. eBay Auction Item # 9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/KIWA-MW-Loop-Ant...temZ9720355600 The Opening Bidding is $600 with a Buy-It-Now Price of $725 Plus a Shipping and Handling Cost : To Be Determined . Location of Seller is : Edmonton, AB, Canada This eBay Auction Ends on : 7 de Mayo 2006 @ 16:51:40 PDT FWIW - The Highest eBay Auction Price so far paid for a Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna has been $795 plus S&H. NOTICE : This is NOT my Auction and I am NOT Associated with the eBay Seller. PLEASE NOTE : That this Message is being Posted for Informational Purposes Only. know your seller and something about what they are selling. as always - buyer beware - life is a gamble and so is ebay ~ RHF . Kiwa MW Air-Core Loop Antenna {In-the-News} FS / FA http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...482a6c2fcb8ba7 3 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...ff1b3ecf7fb3f6 0 and now you know ~ RHF All I know is $600 bucks is a lot for a loop antenna. Nice unit though. What have these Kiwa loops sold for in the past? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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They commonly sold used at the flea market for $250 to $300. I believe
$400 was the new price. I've had the opportunity to try out the Quantum, Kiwa, and Wellbrook at the same time. If space is an issue, get the Quantum. If you have a bit of room, get the Wellbrook. You need a version with a 3ft (meter) loop to get decent AM BCB. The kiwa is OK, but not as good as the Quantum in my listening session. Both the Kiwa and the Quantum can be tilted as well as rotated. I didn't find that useful, but maybe there are time when that would come in handy. A wellbrook isn't easy to tilt. The Wellbrook ALA-100 really works well if you set up a large loop. I'm using 4 turns about 6ft on the side, which really eats up a corner of a room. [It's an experimental antenna of sorts, and I'll probably settle for a double loop for indoor use, and use the larger loop when camping.] Some of the local AM BCB stations are so strong that my 7030 has to cut in the attenuator. Many are so strong that the preamp doesn't turn on. Note that you need some spacing between the loops to get any decent HF performance. About 8 inches does the job. The regenerative controls on the Kiwa are quite useless if you have decent filters in your radio. Given the limited bandwidth of the Kiwa, I can't see why you wouldn't choose the Quantum instead. The Wellbrook, not using a core but rather depending on aperture, works well above HF, certainly up to 50Mhz. I've used it as low as 24Khz, which has a Navy FSK signal. Lastly, the Wellbrook doesn't need to be tuned. Telamon wrote: In article .com, "RHF" wrote: For One and All, Once again here is another one of the Legendary Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna's on eBay. eBay Auction Item # 9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ9720355600 http://cgi.ebay.com/KIWA-MW-Loop-Ant...temZ9720355600 The Opening Bidding is $600 with a Buy-It-Now Price of $725 Plus a Shipping and Handling Cost : To Be Determined . Location of Seller is : Edmonton, AB, Canada This eBay Auction Ends on : 7 de Mayo 2006 @ 16:51:40 PDT FWIW - The Highest eBay Auction Price so far paid for a Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna has been $795 plus S&H. NOTICE : This is NOT my Auction and I am NOT Associated with the eBay Seller. PLEASE NOTE : That this Message is being Posted for Informational Purposes Only. know your seller and something about what they are selling. as always - buyer beware - life is a gamble and so is ebay ~ RHF . Kiwa MW Air-Core Loop Antenna {In-the-News} FS / FA http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...482a6c2fcb8ba7 3 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...ff1b3ecf7fb3f6 0 and now you know ~ RHF All I know is $600 bucks is a lot for a loop antenna. Nice unit though. What have these Kiwa loops sold for in the past? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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The point of the Kiwa is the nulls, and the tilting is necessary to
achieve that. (You get good loop nulls by building it so that it has as small a response as possible to electric fields, with electrical balancing and cancellation. Otherwise the electric field signal fills every null, being 90 degrees out of phase from the signal you're working with and can otherwise cancel exactly.) The regeneration helps, by narrowing the bandwidth, in knocking down the adjacent channel station (also tune away from it on the radio), and I suppose, if you have a deaf radio, it can bring the signal up out of the radio's internal noise. A good radio doesn't need the latter effect. And it's particularly nicely constructed, which is not nothing. The fact that it's tuned means that you can't use it very well in an array with other antennas to cancel stations, because the same station has a different gain across its audio bandwidth; but by itself it's pretty good for cancelling. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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For One and All,
Once again here is another one of the Legendary Kiwa Air Core MW Loop Antenna's on eBay. NOTE - eBay Auction for Item # 9720355600 was Cancelled. The Item was then released and Sold For $600 - IIRC. Currently for those who are looking for a KIWA High Performance MW Air-Core Loop Antenna there is another one on eBay at this time. http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ9733955351 http://cgi.ebay.com/Kiwa-High-Perfor...temZ9733955351 NOTICE - BE ADVISED : This is NOT my Auction and I am NOT Associated with the eBay Seller. PLEASE NOTE - FWIW : That this Message is being Posted for Informational Purposes Only. - - - It was simply an Interesting Antenna Design - - - Know your Seller and something about what they are Selling. As Always - Buyer Beware - Life is a Gamble and so is eBay ~ RHF |
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A friend of mine has owned most of the MW loops made in the past 30 years
and he had the Kiwa loop and sold it. He said it was too much work to use and took too long everytime you went to a new station. All I know is $600 bucks is a lot for a loop antenna. Nice unit though. What have these Kiwa loops sold for in the past? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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