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| Reviews Summary for DX Engineering ARAV-1 Active Receive Vertical |
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Reviews: 2
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Average rating: 5.0/5
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MSRP: $229.00
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Description: DX Engineering’s Active Receive Antenna systems offer excellent receiving performance from 100 kHz to 30 MHz. A 102” whip is used as the antenna element. The unique coupler design makes it vastly superior to traditional active antennas in both strong signal handling and feedline decoupling. This results in significantly better weak signal reception due to lower spurious signal interference and reduced noise.
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Product is in production.
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More info: http://www.dxengineering.com/Products.asp?ID=163&SecID=79&DeptID=12
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YD1OJZ
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Rating: 5/5
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Jan 28, 2009 06:37
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Great product !!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Would like to share our experiences in using ARAV2-1P as we already used it for 160 CW contest in year 2007 and 2009. We were using callsign YE1ZAT.
In year 2007, our station was locating in regular real estate area and we installed ARAV2-1P about 30 meters away from other building. During contest found noise level can be reduced compared to our TX antenna (wire dipole about 40 meter height from ground). In diople noise is about S-9 and at ARAV2-1P, its about S-5. This quite help us to hear weak signal. For grounding of ARAV2-1P, we were using 3 rods buried about 2 meter depth in the soil.
But in year 2009, during CQ WW 160 contest on Jan, we decided to build station at the beach side. Still using wire dipole for TX antenna at about 10 meter height from sea level. And we installed ARAV2-1P with grounding system by put 8 wire radial @ 5 meters only and also buried about 50 cm in the sand. Found the amazing result !!
Compared with dipole where noise level S-9, at ARAV-1P, noise level can be reduced to S-3 ! So we can really hear lot of signals where we definitely can't hear by dipole.
Congratulation for DX Engineering for this great product. We can break our country record to get highest QSO numbers cause we can hear many DX stations.
Joz YD1JZ
for YE1ZAT
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AA6VB
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Rating: 5/5
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Dec 13, 2006 18:17
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Great Antennas
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I recently purchased a pair of DXE-ARAV2-1P active antennas which I have phased with the MFJ Deluxe Noise Canceling Unit. So far, I have used the system on 30, 40, 80 and 160 meters. On 30 and 40, the antennas are simply amazing. The signal to noise ratio improves dramatically, and I can hear signals that are literally and completely buried in the noise on my transmit vertical. The signals literally become Q5 copy. Signals that could not otherwise be heard are clearly readable. Honest.
On 80 meters, the improvement in the signal to noise ratio is less dramatic, but is an improvement. On 160, I do not notice any improvement, but this may be due to my particular location or set up.
The quality of the construction is exceptional and the manual is clear and well written. The units are not weatherproof as the come from the factory and must be waterproofed with silicon or some other sealant once they arrive.
The performance on 30/40 is absolutely amazing, and the help on 80 is an added bonus. All I can say on 30 and 40 is WOW!
73, AA6VB
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