[catman]

G'day all, I've checked and cleared everything as ok. As I mentioned in my Quad loop page at one point my loop was actually facing the wrong direction (since corrected) which has helped a lot but now my loop is vertically polarised whch gives it good low angle radiation and a 'nearly' omnidirectional pattern (3 db down off the loop ends).

However this is where it gets a little grubby and human factors possibly apply. I do have regular skeds with a Ham friend in vk3 (Victoria) weekly with no problems and signals are on average around S7. My friend uses only a random length dipole similiar to a G5RV in length.

I did mention 'snubbing' earlier. I suspect that this does actually happen. I have Aspergers Syndrome (I'm an 'Aspie') and my personality is 'different', and I suspect that for this reason other Hams around Australia (vk) 'pretend' that they don't hear me. I mention my Aspergers nature on my QRZ.COM profile page.

I also do newsreading for our WIA National News service and I have been advised that my spoken news items are frequently picked up by the ARRL's 'ARnewsline' news service. So in the end, you make your own judgements as to what is really going on. Regards, Felix (vk4fuq) aka catman.