Steve:

I guess that's what confuses me a bit with the 15-meter portion of my Alpha 
Delta DXCC.

The thing works so well on 40, that you would think it should perform well 
on 15 meters too, especially if it uses the 40 meter part of the antenna to 
tune on 15.

A good friend of mine has an MFJ antenna analyzer, so I may ask him to come 
over here and see where the antenna actually resonates on 15 meters.

That hopefully should tell me something.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: 10 and 15 meters continued


> Tom,
>
> Sounds like you had fun.  Svalbard is  between the Top of Norway and the
> North Pole.   It belongs to Norway, but is far enough away so it counts
> as a separate DXCC country.   I don't see them very often, but did work
> them  a few weeks ago in the WAE SSB contest.
>
> I did a little bit of S and P this weekend, mostly on Saturday.   A
> number of JA's on 10 and 15, Guam and Ascension island on 15, and  2
> from Kazakhstan and also the persian Gulf  on 10 meters in the morning.
>   Didn't hear anything on 160, but the higher bands were so good, it
> didn't matter.
>
> As for your antenna on 15 meters:  If I'm not mistaken, it's full size
> on 40, loaded for 75/80, and has 2 parallel dipoles for 10 and 20
> meters.   I think the idea is that since 40 and 15 meter bands are
> harmonically related,  there is no "real" 15 meter section, and so you
> tune   the 40 meter part on 15.
>
> If the performance is that poor, maybe you can rig up a  single band 15
> meter dipole somewhere.
>
> 73, Steve  KW3A
>
>
> On 10/27/2013 9:29 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
>> Hi, again, all.
>>
>> Most of the contacts I mentioned were on 10 and 20 meters.
>>
>> For some reason, which I'm going to have to investigate, my DXCC tunes, 
>> but
>> doesn't seem to get out quite as well as I think it should on 15 meters.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>>
>