Monthly Archives: July 2015

Coax Loop Revision

Posted on July 18, 2015 by | 8 comments

Bill Marsh has been experimenting further with his coax loop for MW and the X-band. Here are the results:

X-BAND LOOP NUMBER 2

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Rockwork Cliff DXpedition

Posted on July 17, 2015 by | Comments Off on Rockwork Cliff DXpedition
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Gary DeBock with an FSL at Rockwork.

Washington state DXer Gary DeBock (above) who recently joined the  League has posted this report of a DXpedition to his favourite cliff-side location on the northern Oregon coast last month. Thanks to Paul Rawdon for reporting this to the DX Dialog user-group.

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Making Radio Matter

Posted on July 11, 2015 by | Comments Off on Making Radio Matter
English: DEGEN DE1103 MULTIBAND FM/AM/SW DIGIT...

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This interesting article from the New Statesman helps to remind us that in the Third World, radio and in particular shortwave, is still a valid medium for informing the masses.

 

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X-Band Coax Loop

Posted on July 1, 2015 by | Comments Off on X-Band Coax Loop

xloop1Bill Marsh Jnr. has recently completed his X-band coaxial loop antenna (tunes 550-1700kHz). The full article appears here.

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