An important lesson came my way today. My NS Beverage was installed with
downleads to the control box of about 4-5 feet, so I would have easy
access to the control box and termination resistor (the resistor gets
replaced once or twice every spring from lightning).
Bad Idea! Out working on Beverage #2 the EW unit I shortened up the
vertical downlead wires for the control box on Beverage #1 the NS unit
to about 6 inches. Tonight at my SS ES1WN had maybe 15dB more FB than
any signal ever I heard from Europe.
There's something, nay, a lot! to keeping the vertical downleads as
short as possible or even eliminating them.
73 Art
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