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Re: Topband: Receive antenna dilemma

To: "Mark Lunday" <mlunday@nc.rr.com>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Receive antenna dilemma
From: "John/K4WJ" <k4wj@att.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:50:29 -0500
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Lunday" <mlunday@nc.rr.com>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:04 PM
Subject: Topband: Receive antenna dilemma


> Since I can see that my preliminary BOG installations are not yielding
> satisfactory results, perhaps it is time to look elsewhere.
>
> The BOG as unerminated, 200 feet long each, on pointed 210 so I can hear 
> EU
> off the back.and one pointed 300 so I can also hear Afrida off the back.
>
> I din't have room for longer BOGs, and I don't see a reason to put up
> beverages of that length as the performance will be sup-optimal.
>
> So I am looking into other alternatives.   The K9AY would be too close to 
> my
> transmitting antenna in the back.
>
> The DX Engineering 4-pack active receive antenna array package looks
> interesting.  It's a but challenging to get set up, and it's about $1000.
> While I want to get some more activity on 160, I am not sure that this is
> the way to go over my inverted L.  Will it hear that dramatically 
> different?
> AA6YQ says he loves his/  I trally need to be sure before I make a large
> investment like this.
>
> http://www.dxengineering.com/Parts.asp?ID=5255&PLID=255&SecID=117&DeptID={95
> EA549F-3210-474F-84E0-5BE0B267BC4C}&PartNo=DXE%2DRFS%2DSYS%2D4P
>
> Advice appreciated
>
> WD4ELG
>
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