There's no need for a lot of real estate to get good RX performance.
The Hi-Z three element and four element phased vertical arrays have a
small footprint and yield a worthwhile and useful RDF. The vertical
elements are essentially ground independent, can be made of almost
anything, and can be any reasonable length (obviously shorter elements
have less capture area). I have no fiduciary interest in Hi-Z or DXE
but am a very satisfied, long term user of the Hi-Z-300 eight circle array.
73. . . Dave, W0FLS
On 12/24/2022 3:18 PM, Wes wrote:
With all due respect there is an awful lot of presumption here. Not
everyone has the space for one or more Beverage antennas. I have 1
3/4 acre but the way my vertical, HF tower, house, neighbors' houses,
etc are sited there isn't room for an array of Beverage antennas.
Wes N7WS
On 12/24/2022 12:38 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Yes, the advantages of having good Beverage antennas in addition to an
inverted-L are very well established indeed. I (and thousands of other
Topbanders) can vouch for that from personal experience.
Yes, there are times when your inverted-L will out-hear good Beverages.
Even DX, *but that is the exception rather than the rule.*
The information I wrote below will tell you nearly everything you
need to
know about building effective Beverage antennas:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181115070846/http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html
The biggest mistake people make is not installing their Beverages in the
correct orientation to the DX. See the information near the bottom of my
old webpage there about that.
73 Mike
W0BTU
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 8:38 AM Wes <wes_n7ws@triconet.org> wrote:
Rune has kindly spoken up, making some of this discussion moot but I
will
continue anyway.
...
I may speak more about RX antennas in another message.
Wes N7WS
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