Bill,
The HiZ antenna will greatly improve your hearing, especially with the weak
ones.
For a decent DX Tx antenna, I'd suggest an Inverted L. Make it as tall as
possible with atleast 24 quarter wave radials. I'd use a minimum of 48,
135ft radials. Of course you can try 4 elevated radials.
I was one of the few in the west that worked them last night. I have a Hi-Z
4 sq and a 72ft irrigation pipe vertical with 4 top hat wires and a tapped
inductor at the base. I also have near 100 radials at the base. We have
very poor soil here so ground losses are quite high without a good radial
system.
Good luck and have fun...
Ray,
N6VR/W7YA
Near Prescott. Az
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 7:24 AM Carl Braun <Carl.Braun@cattron.com> wrote:
> S9OK was light with me last night here in northern WI but I could copy.
> Listened to the pile up...up...up....with lots of east coasters calling
> from NA but hearing VERY few stations west of me.
>
> I was listening on an 80m vertical so less than ideal RX antenna.
>
> 73,
>
> Carl W9LF
>
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> Andy,
> You were a fairly solid 529 into Central KY on my GAP vertical (Poor RX
> antenna). I gave you a few calls with no luck (apparently a bad TX antenna
> also :)). S9OK was just under the noise level. Work begins this weekend on
> a HI-Z 4-square :).
>
> 73,
> Bill WE5P
>
> Comfortably Numb
>
> > On Oct 6, 2021, at 00:03, Andree DL8LAS via Topband <
> topband@contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey topbanders, nice signal from S9OK this morning in DL. Worked also
> first west coast this season. N7UA was real 559 today. Here is a short clip
> from S9OK.
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