Hi Paul,
Glad you are ready to work DX
Are the Beverage antenna transformer and termination resistor close
to the ground rods, with short interconnect wires.?
Are your coax cables buried to help with noise pick up.?
Some of the small metal loops are not as good as the larger wire home
built ones.
DX is getting much better most notice-able at sunrise & sunset.
73
Bruce
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:25:25 +0100, Paul Mclaren
wrote:
I am in that category only having put up inverted L for 160m as
an extension on my 40m quarterwave vertical recently. Receive
antennas are Wellbrook loop and a couple of 40m beverages point
NE/SW on top of a 7 foot high boundary wall. This was only put in
place in the summer so yet to try my first winter and can't really
believe I will hear anything Stateside or beyond - my best DX so far
with limited effort is A65. The beverages are not very directional
on 160m but hear into the local suburban noise better than the loop
plus they work well on 80m and 40m RX as a bonus.
I'll take any criticism going but for a normal UK house my garden is
pretty average so I have to make do.
Regards
Paul MM0ZBH
Bruce-k1fz
http://www.qsl.net/k1fz/flag_antennas.html
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