[600MRG] great conditions last night

[Brian Pease]

That Wellbrook antenna must be pretty good (and null out local noise 
very well), because he spotted me twice last night with my 6 ft high 
horizontal dipole!
I looked at the shared apex loop, but I wonder what its real sensitivity 
is at LF/MF, given the "1-turn" current-sampling method used to couple 
to the loops.  I decided to not be a beta tester and ordered a Pixel RF 
Pro-1B 1 meter shielded loop to hopefully null out the broadband DSL 
noise from the drop lines across the street.
On 2/8/2014 12:48 PM, John Langridge wrote:
> Conditions continue to be above normal compared to sessions in previous weeks.  Temps in the evening and overnight were in the mid to lower-20's.  While I continue to run reduced power to the coax, base current is very close to levels seen at full power.
>
> Last night yielded 4 spots from a very active SWL in France, F59706.  XKA John did some digging and found that he is using this: http://www.wellbrook.uk.com/ALA100b.html
>
> Also 3 spots from G3XKR.
>
> Both of these were very early in the evening (0300z/0400z).
>
> While on the subject, has anyone tried the "new"  Array Solutions shared apex loop arrays:  http://arraysolutions.com/Products/sal_array.htm .  The footprint appears to be about the same as my K9AY loops.  Also claims continuous coverage to 30 MHz. My K9AY loops have different termination going from 80/160m to 630m and without a vactrol it is always tough to get right for the current ground conditions.
>
> 73 and will be listening for XKA John tonight on CMSK while concurrently running WSPR2.  Maybe a late CQ on CW also if the band conditions warrant.  Details will follow accordingly.
>
> John XIQ
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