Re: Kiwa MW Air-Core Loop Antenna {In-the-News} FS / FA


"Guy Atkins" <dxnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> I think you're 100% right, Wavetrapper. Craig and I have been good friends
> since the late 1980s, and I'm very familiar with his approach to Kiwa
> products. Like with the Kiwa MAP unit, the MW Loop was labor-intensive to
> build (but not quite as bad a situation as with the MAP). The major
products
> at Kiwa have been a labor of love for a dwindling hobby crowd. He kept the
> parts costs as low as possible by doing most of the work himself (you
should
> have seen the ingenious, screw-driven device he cobbled together to cut
the
> spiral grooves for the wire in the PVC pipe core of the MW Loop!). Craig
> also built his own flow-solder table for soldering PCBs, if I recall, and
a
> number of other clever tools and construction aids.
>
> Craig is more of an inventor/engineer than he is a business person who has
> all the expenses and profits figured out to the last penny. He had a very
> good career before Kiwa as a broadcast station engineer, and gained quite
a
> reputation for modifying expensive pro-recording consoles to produce
better
> sound. He still does some consulting on the side, but his heart is in the
> Kiwa Electronics business.
>
> Unfortunately, as the hobby slowly decline, we lose some of the quality
> accessories and peripherals like the Kiwa MAP and the Kiwa MW Loop. I'm
> aware of an amazing prototype replacement for the MW loop that Craig was
> working on a few years back, but now I don't think he'll be producing it.


It should be nice when he stops production of these succesfull items, to put
the schematics/drawings on Internet, open to the interested hobby-builder.

MRe


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    ... Craig and I have been good friends ... and I'm very familiar with his approach to Kiwa ... spiral grooves for the wire in the PVC pipe core of the MW Loop!). ... Unfortunately, as the hobby slowly decline, we lose some of the quality ...
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    ... I wonder if this antenna was profitable for Kiwa. ... I asked Craig of Kiwa ... loop will never be made again. ...
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