I used several short bogs back in the 80's on a small urban lot where their
length was about 120'. I got the information on them from John K9DX. The
interesting thing was that the bog wire was coax (I used RG-174)where the far
end was shorted shield to center conductor and at the transformer end, only the
center conductor was connected to the transformer. The bogs were the best RX
antenna I had and they appeared to work well at times.
I have not tried this arrangement since then but would be interested in any
comments about the use of coax as described instead of wire for the bog.
Greg
----------------------------------------------------I agree the BOGs are great
for local crud reduction and in a suburban area while the DX performance isn't
great, the S/N impact just from ducking the noisy switched power supplies,
chargers, garbage low voltage lighting switching matchbox transformers, PCs etc
is significant. Even 100 ft wires on ground with a small tuner can be a big
boom to receiving.
73 and HNY to all. Pete W2PM
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Greg Chartrand - W7MY
Richland, WA.
DN-06IF
W7MY Home Page:
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