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Tuning a loop.
I was a member of this group some time ago... somehow I became disconnected but the daily message content continued to be delivered to my e-mail address. While continuing to read the mail, I was
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John MacKay <vasaloj@...>
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K9AY Loop Construction
I am building the contol boxes for the K9AY Loop and am using the FAR Circuits boards. I would love to hear from anyone who has built them 73 John NS5Z
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Automatic tuning could be made to work, but you will have to furnish a pilot carrier for the coupler to know how to tune the loop. The SGC "stealth kit" is basicly a green camouflaged loop and support
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Paul Lynas
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Re: Loop matching
Yes, it is certainly possible. ATU's are primarily designed to tune 2-30 mhz and go into the auto tune mode when they receive an injection of several watts of power from your xmitter. The larger the
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Jim Dunstan <jdunstan@...>
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Re: Loop matching
Hi, An automatic antenna tuner works matching the transmitted signal of the transmitter to the antenna. If you are using it for this purpose it will work well. I am using an LDG AT-200Pro autotuner
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Loop matching
Hi, loop fans! I'm thinking of using an auto antenna tuner to match a HF square loop's internal impetance with RG58. Is that possible? Thanks in advance...
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Re: Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my A...
Hi Fraser, I'll give them a try and see what's still available. I had already ordered the "2nd half of the 90's" CD from the Medium Wave Journal, which should include several of Andy's articles.
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Rob Moore <rmoore5@...>
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Damn, Yahoo Groups Email address detector has hidden the email addresses in my message. Here they are again but I've used AT instead of @ so you will need to change the email address accordingly
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Fraser <fraser.castle@...>
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Re: Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my A...
Hi Rob, Shortwave Magazine became part of Radio User magazine which is a PW Publishing product. Since the change it has not been very clear on the website how you get copies of older SWM articles. You
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Fraser <fraser.castle@...>
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Hi John, Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to order individual articles (or even entire back issues) from SHortwave (Wireless?) magazine when I looked on their website. Do you have a
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Rob Moore <rmoore5@...>
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Re: Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my A...
Hello Rob et al Andy Ikin did write a number of articles, as listed below. There may have been more. A. Ikin, Active solution?, Short Wave Magazine, Oct 1996, pp 22, 23, 23 36 A. Ikin, Intermodulation
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Re: Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my ALA-1...
Shucks!... All Andy did was repeat the info that is on his ALA1530 web page. Take that bit and some study of Dallas Lankford's material at... <http://www.kongsfjord.no/> Hmmm... certainly not out of
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Re: Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my ALA-1...
Hi Nigel, At least, as I said before I don't have to "operate" on the Aluminum. I'm glad I held off for a few days thinking about it. Mea culpa! Andy's a good guy and I understand why he doesn't want
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Rob Moore <rmoore5@...>
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Message from Andy Ikin - I don't have to cut into my ALA-1530.
Here is a synopsis of messages I recently received from Andy Ikin, they're pretty interesting and put to rest several questions that people have about the ALA-1530. I stand corrected on the loop
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Rob Moore <rmoore5@...>
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Re: Building my first loop
Oops: wouldn't be a 2f range anyway, forgot the sqrt. Should read "... this will not be a 1.4f frequency range but will be a 0 - C/2 top range with considerable overlap with the 0 - C single-section
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Len Warner
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Re: Building my first loop
But with a lot of not very useful overlap. A better way, with one less switch, would be to - wire the first section across the loop, - parallel the second section with 280pF and connect via a switch
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Len Warner
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Re: Building my first loop
Since the rotors are very likely on a common metal shaft, probably you cannot connect more than 2 sections in series. Much depends on how big your loop is and what frequencies you want to tune, which
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Len Warner
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Re: building my first loop
Thanks Nigel and Jim, you both clarified for me what I need to do. I am just a novice and am learning as I go. Ed Dawson
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