Okay brain trust, I am looking for recommendations for 160 receiving antennas. I have tried a number of beverages and they do not yield the desired result here in the high desert with no ground refer
Hi Tom...I did an evaluation for DX Engineereing of the rcv'ing 4 sq..and its over all performance is equal to my 900 ft beverages on 160m and 80m and the f/b was far better...a number of others have
The, overall, most success I've had has been with a relatively low, 25-40 ft high, full-sized 300 ohm folded dipole. It is almost useless as a xmit aerial but really hears well and is very low noise.
I've had good luck with a simple closed loop, large, 20 - 50 feet up. Large = 300 foot on a side... your size may vary, although as long as it is about a wavelength in circumference, there should be
Hi Tom. For future NAQPs I would campaign for two K9AY loops a half wave apart and fed in phase bearing East, and possibly something low and down in the gully up in back of the 40 tower, like N7MAL's
Very timely thread.... I will be doing CQWW SSB this year from a beachside location in EA6 (Formentera island) and am still wondering what band to do, bearing in mind I will only have a few hours to
One of the things that could hurt the vertical effort, may be the local noise level. One may want to have a back up plan.. that could be as simple as simply running a long piece of coax out.... I kno
Hi Duncan and all... I've used my top loaded 80M verticals for Rx on 160 and have been quite pleased. The S/N ratio is certainly better that on my top loaded 160M vertical. No preamp was needed, nor
Hi Tom i think you should try the array of 4 k9ay phased togheter. Here you find some information and audio clips: Version for 80/40M (smaller one) http://www.sp3key.com/klub/k9ay_pro/index_en.html V
Duncan, Tom, et al: As W8JI makes clear on his web site, the only real improvement in receiving capability on 160M results from DIRECTIVITY. A short loaded vertical will be no better noise discrimina
"It probably would also work better if I didn't have five other towers in my five-acre yard :-( -- 73, Dave/K8CC"Five acres isn't a "yard," it's a county! Or, if you could submerge 99 per cent of it,
I use a rotatable loop for directions where I don't have a Beverage. My web page with construction details, etc. has been up for several years, but I changed ISPs a few months ago, so there may be so