[600MRG] Lossy XPQ

[Laurence KL7 L]

Thanks Dick - we had the first Trumpeter swans fly over yesterday and its looking like we will hope it will finally be starting to look like Spring soon -  my lake is still 4ft of ice
 
Interestingly enough and would perhaps would want to throw this Large Marconi away I had zilch, none, no decodes at WSPR2 last night from anywhere at all with the tx ticking away at 100W output. In the summer or recent days with the K index nudging up a bit its a bit of a lead wall to cross.
 
 My attempts at reducing R Loss aren't working well so unless I go in with a D4 tractor and pull down all the trees for 100m radii this is probably as good as its going to get - will be interesting to see what the Delta is between the large loop and the Marconi at 35 miles today
 
XPQ will be ground wave profiling thru today CW ID and info. 475.6kHz or so
 
Laurence KL7L  WE2XPQ WH2XBA/5
 
From: dick.bingham at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:22:56 -0700
Subject: Re: [600MRG] XPQ
To: hellozerohellozero at hotmail.com

OK, I understand now. . . . . I am returning to CN98pi today and will begin monitoring WSPR on 475.7KHz. Hope to hear you. The Tundra Swans that Winter-over at CN98pi have already left I have been

told so maybe the Canada Geese have headed North too. . . . 73 Dick/w7wkr and wd2xsh-26

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Laurence KL7 L <hellozerohellozero at hotmail.com> wrote:


Thanks Dick - this is my RLoss total and probably I didnt have the trees it should be around 10 ohms which means I could drive more current into the array for the same power - so Im effectively  much more lossy due to the environment than I would  have liked. The idea here was to compare to  effectiveness of the loop versus typical top loaded Marconi in a Alaskan Birch forest at 500kHz  - the loop is far more docile to date - tomorrow ill find out how it compares Watt for Watt... :-) 


LaurencePs ducks are returning yay !!