The audio is back on at 21:27.

Wow this has to be the worst broadcast I have ever heard. Something
about James Brown????

All they say is yeah yeah yeah.

Horrible.

Oh well mostly just QRN anyway here this afternoon.

Ken

Ken Wilson wrote:
Well that time should be 21:00 utc not 17:00utc

Anyway the audio went away around 21:03. Now all I have is a carrier
with no audio??

Maybe they are having problems.

Where are you located Terry? I am in Georgetown, KY.

Ken


Ken Wilson wrote:
Hi Terry,

I agree with what you are saying.

I do not think that is the case for me. I have used the k9AY & 1530 for
several years & with various receivers. 756PRO, RX340, AR7030 & many
more.

Good example. At 17:00 utc there is a pirate on 6.925 in am mode not
USB. It is not real strong here with some fading on the signal. Decent
copy on the K9AY but better copy on the 1530 as less noise on the
signal but it is 1-2 sunits lower on the JRC NRD545 receiver I am using
right now.

73 Ken








wrote:
You mentioned that in your location the smaller Wellbrook ALA 1530 gave
a lower
S-meter reading, but was clearer then your Wellbrook K9AY loop. Is it
posible
the K9AY produces enough RF to cause your receiver to, so to speak,
"fold".

I have found that too much RF, even well removed from the tuned
frequency,
can cause many receivers to act "weird". By wierd I am referring to non
obvious distortion that degrades intelligibility. Me experiments over
the last
~14 months showed me that ANYTHING that degrades the signal to noise
will impair intelligibility.

I found that every receiver I tested, the boring list at the end,
experienced
degraded intelligibility with a long enough wire antenna. Long enough
might
be 50' with the DX398, to 1000' with the R390/R392.

Receivers used:
R2000, R1000, PRC1000,DX398, R390, R392, AOR7030+, R8B and several
ham transceivers with general coverage receivers.

If you have a RF attentuator, in a pinch a the Rat Shack TV adjustable
pad
can be used, could you try an experiment? The next time you encounter a
situation where the ALA 1530 gives better, as in increased
intelligibility, place
the attenuator/pad inline and see if reducing the incoming RF voltage
helps.

Several things I read got me to thinking about the effect of broad band
"noise"
and the effect it could have on cross modulation/IMD/IP2/IP3 at the
first mixer,
before great selectivity is present. IF, please note the IF, the
first mixer
adds unwanted RF crap from unwanted, overly strong, RF "noise", then
intelligibility
will almost certainly suffer.

"Noise" in this context means every RF signal other then the one you
want.

Longer, as in the length of an antenna, is not always better.

Terry