Friends, I need to really increase my country count on 160M so I've decided to installed dedicated receiving antennas. My home is on a 6 acre rectangular lot so I have room for a couple of 800 ft bev
Hello Mack My experience: I have operated 28 years on 160 meters from the same QTH. I started out with Beverages - which I thought worked great. The 880 foot one aimed at Europe was amazing. So I tho
Mack, I use two DXE bi-directional beverages, each 720 ft long, fed with a single 300 ft length of direct burial quad shield RG6. The DXE transformers and relay switching boxes use high quality weath
Jim, Tim, and Tim, Thank you all for some really great advice. Perhaps I should look more closely at the 8 element receiving arrays. Are most of the 160M contest stations now using receiving array's
I suggest that you study W3LPL's excellent presentation on 160M RX antennas from K3LR's Contest University at Dayton this past spring. The various systems each have their merits, which depend upon th
I just drafted a reply to Mack's question delineating the problem I've had with my vertical arrays. After I sent the e-mail, an idea popped into my head. I wonder if my problems have to do with groun
Hi Roger, Before the devastating ice storm of December 2013 here, I had a 1500' long Beverage aimed to South America, & a K9AY loop in the same direction: the loop would out-perform the wire 95% of t
Mack, My actual on-the-air test and experience at my QTH in Arkansas has revealed the 8 vertical array systems outperform beverages. I wrote an article with graphs showing the signal performance diff
Joel, Thank you very much for your kind reply. Do you have a preferred model of 8 element array that will perform well on 160M and 80M? Yes, I'd love to read the article. Of course, I belong to the A
My two cents: This thread is one of the BEST we have every had on Topband. Very informative. Thanks to everyone who took time to post. I started with Beverages in 1980 shortly after moving to my curr
Just a few more observations with receive antennas. This past year, I did a lecture at the DX club about low band receive antennas. Basically, I gave points for various characteristics of the antenna
Craig, Great looking toward the large circular arrays. Getting to be a popular item. Must be a hoot to switch it around in a contest. Two of my antennas are Beverage using WD-1A. One a two dire