I wanted to post a follow up on another thread in the HF Monitoring Forum:
http://radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76823
My PAR EF-SWL arrived Wednesday of last week, and Friday I found the ambition to get up in the attic, but before I did, I laid out the Ant. on the floor and decided on a inverted L pattern from the instructions, well after being in the attic and midway into the project I had to deviate from the instructions, with the truss layout and the 3 scanner ant.'s plus tv ant. up in the attic, the inverted L turned into a loop, actually by chance it turned out to be a perfect rectangle.
A loop pattern was not in the instructions and I have not found a good way to ground it either, so I left it ungrounded. The feed line is RG6QS.
Right or probably wrong this is now what I have.
When I upgraded from my RS reel Ant. to my Sony AN-LP1 Loop I was blown away by the difference.
So how does my PAR EF-SWL Antenna perform under these conditions?
PAR EF-SWL ungrounded loop Vs Sony AN-LP1:
Only using the PAR Ant. for 2 days now and still testing, I was hoping for better performance but this is what I have found.
The instructions say when making comparisons, do not judge by the S meter, using the S meter between the 2 Ant.'s I cant say at this time that I have a stronger signal with the PAR, it looks to be the same. I have not found what other reviewers have claimed that their recievers came alive to new stations, I have yet to find any new stations that the PAR recieves that the Sony does not, but what I have found, is on weak stations the PAR recieves the stations noticably clearer, less noise and static. It seems it might perform even better during the day against the Sony.
So with everything considered, and Im sure I would have had better results if I could of followed the instructions, overall I am happy with my new PAR EF-SWL Ant.
There you have it, for what its worth.
http://radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76823
My PAR EF-SWL arrived Wednesday of last week, and Friday I found the ambition to get up in the attic, but before I did, I laid out the Ant. on the floor and decided on a inverted L pattern from the instructions, well after being in the attic and midway into the project I had to deviate from the instructions, with the truss layout and the 3 scanner ant.'s plus tv ant. up in the attic, the inverted L turned into a loop, actually by chance it turned out to be a perfect rectangle.
A loop pattern was not in the instructions and I have not found a good way to ground it either, so I left it ungrounded. The feed line is RG6QS.
Right or probably wrong this is now what I have.
When I upgraded from my RS reel Ant. to my Sony AN-LP1 Loop I was blown away by the difference.
So how does my PAR EF-SWL Antenna perform under these conditions?
PAR EF-SWL ungrounded loop Vs Sony AN-LP1:
Only using the PAR Ant. for 2 days now and still testing, I was hoping for better performance but this is what I have found.
The instructions say when making comparisons, do not judge by the S meter, using the S meter between the 2 Ant.'s I cant say at this time that I have a stronger signal with the PAR, it looks to be the same. I have not found what other reviewers have claimed that their recievers came alive to new stations, I have yet to find any new stations that the PAR recieves that the Sony does not, but what I have found, is on weak stations the PAR recieves the stations noticably clearer, less noise and static. It seems it might perform even better during the day against the Sony.
So with everything considered, and Im sure I would have had better results if I could of followed the instructions, overall I am happy with my new PAR EF-SWL Ant.
There you have it, for what its worth.
