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Hello from Austria,

I am an enthusiastic mediumwave BC-DXer and operate a small remote station outside Salzburg, which I have built up over the last 14 years. ( As I don't own the land, I can't set up endless antennas there. At the moment I use a 200 metre two-wire Beverage and a K9AY (circumference of 30 meter), but it only listens to Asia and South America and is much too close to a house wall. The cows want it that way. But everything can be controlled remotely from QRO.cz, I'm very happy with it.

I'm thinking about setting up the ingenious AziLoop, which I could erect a good distance from the houses. The coax there is already buried, so far everything is fine. However, I have two problems at my location: the antenna has to survive storms well, and there are often storms there. And it has to be able to be dismantled quickly, but maybe I can talk my farmer out of that.

So I come to the point: I should - although the opposite would be better - erect the antenna as compactly as possible, also because I have to do everything myself. Dave specified a circumference of only 10 meters in his AziLoop manual (page 104). He wanted to cover this topic in more detail in the forthcoming manual, which will be much more comprehensive, but it has not yet been published. In an exciting (and humorous) talk at the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club, he presented the antenna and his thoughts: - starts at minute 20, the more technical part begins at minute 52.

In the presentation Dave showed a circumference of 15 meters, a picture is attached here. This size seems to me to be easily realisable, so my question is whether anyone here already has experience with a ‘relatively’ small AziLoop. My use is only intended from 500-1800 kHz. I have seen the perfect installation from Steve, VK5SFA, in the group - I don't know the exact size, but that seems ‘a size’ too big for me - even if I would do it exactly the same way. Then I would certainly hear AM stations from Australia better in Austria!

Thanks for your opinions.

73 Christoph, OE2CRM

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