Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:43:24 -0500
From: "Ralph Lane" <rlane7301@comcast.net>
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Mike, I must have missed something, who is Bill and where do I find info
about Ashlock loops?
Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "WE0H" <we0h@gentekcom.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: LF: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Loops again


> What is special about an Ashlock loop you ask; the tuning components.
> Nothing new and exotic just explained real well by Bill and tested over
and
> over to refine the procedure and construction and installation of a
> super-performing loop. Everyone that has followed his advise to the exact
> letter has gotten a good signal on the band in the US. I am waiting for
the
> license to be mailed back so I can cram 400w into my loop. If I can make
1w
> go easily past 160 miles with a totally audible CW signal day and night,
> imagine what 400w or even less would do as I don't think it will take the
> full legal limit to make solid CW contacts with this antenna and decent
> conditions.
>
> I understand that most amateur LF antennas are inefficient, but these
loops
> have been bad mouthed for a long time and we have an Engineer here that
has
> taken on the task of designing and testing the heck out of a 50' by 50'
loop
> on 185kc and come up with a few variations that tested in the real world
on
> the air and continue to prove their awesome design and engineering to
> perform excellent.
>
> Yes, verticals do work well with the proper installation. Or you can make
a
> lousy installed vertical work with a bunch of power. But take a lousy
> installed loop or lousy matched loop and it wont work worth a darn. Follow
> Bill's advise and it will work.
>
> Mike>WE0H
> http://www.we0h.us/lf
> WE 185.3026kc
> QRSS & -.-.  .--
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> [mailto:owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org]On Behalf Of Steve Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 2:16 AM
> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> Subject: LF: Re: RE: Re: Re: Loops again
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: WE0H <we0h@gentekcom.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: 25 December 2002 02:40
> Subject: LF: RE: Re: Re: Loops again
>
>
> > Then why did my 1-watt signal go 1302 miles the other week? I was
sending
> > QRSS-30 and the receive station was southwest from here. My loop points
> > north and south. It usually goes out past 500 miles in QRSS and over 160
> > miles in CW with the receiving station listening to it with his ears. It
> is
> > an Ashlock loop maybe that is the difference???
> What's special about an Ashlock loop?
>
> The article I mentioned does say that electrically tiny loops are
> inefficient - but aren't electrically tiny verticals inefficient too?
>
> Steve
>
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