Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag

[Mark Pettifor <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

**Anecdotal evidence alert**

I guess I'll risk getting attacked with fruit as well. I got into the AM 
DX part of the hobby only two years ago, so I didn't get the memo about 
140 feet being too short. I have lots of great catches from here in the 
Midwest on the shorter DKAZ made from those instructions, like Colombia, 
Venezuela and Nicaragua, a very tentative snippet from Brazil, and I'm 
pretty sure I have Tahiti on one of the recordings I made before they 
went off the air. (I just have to remember which hard drive it's on...)

For most of that time though I have been using the FLG100LN-2, which I'm 
sure makes a difference. I also didn't make it reversible or anything. I 
put up a "test" antenna to see how it would perform, using some coax and 
my first hand-made transformer (on a toroid my brother had lying about 
at his workplace, so I don't even know what material it is), and have 
been using it ever since, manually switching it from N-S to E-W. But 
like driving a stick shift, you only do it for so long and then you want 
an automatic, so I might try to make it reversible (and add a second one 
if I can figure out where to put it, to cover all directions).

Mark

On 2018-10-23 10:30 pm, Mark Durenberger wrote:
> Hi Don.  That D-Kaz paper is being updated but will probably still 
> suggest
> 140 feet as a popular length.
>
> (Ducking, expecting incoming bananas from Chuck)
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Don Moman VE6JY
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:02 PM
> To: International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag
>
> http://www.durenberger.com/documents/DKAZ070314.pdf   is updated and 
> still
> shows the 140 foot version.  I don't see anything more recent.... I 
> wish I
> had. Is there a link?  I just built 4 of them last year, one for each 
> major
> direction. I finally have them all hooked up for this season. With the 
> low
> wire they are a great moose catcher!  I could have easily made them 
> higher
> but I was just following the instructions. I could have made them 
> larger as
> I have plenty of room. Now not so easy...
> Don
> VE6JY
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:36 PM Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As do we all I think. The 140 foot version was abandoned over 5 years
> > ago as it wasn't cutting it at th low end.
> >
> >
> > Chuck
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