Taking the chance to show my ignorance :) Here is my thinking. While adding cores along the length of a beverage may make it appear electrically longer, how can that help its performance? I'd think t
Hi Ron, A short Beverage -- regardless of its velocity factor -- has the radiation pattern of a short Beverage. You can't improve the performance of a Beverage antenna by lowering its velocity factor
A BOG is an excellent choice when stealth is the driving requirement, otherwise arrays of short verticals provide significantly superior performance compared to BOG or short Beverage occupying the s
Vertical arrays are mono band. You need one for 160 , another for 80, and if you want 40 and 30 two more. Also they needs a lot of phasing cables and a large real state area far from constructions.
First let me apologize if you get this e-mail twice as I have been having problems with MSN.com. Hi JC, Not all vertical arrays are mono band. A well built 4-square on a 60 foot per side can do a ste
Let me chime in here too, I have a partial YCCC vertical array and two R-BOGs. Both of these RX systems work well at my QTH. For the YCCC vertical array I used the 60 foot from the center spacing ( 1
<< Sometimes the YCCC is better and sometimes the BOGs are better for 80m or 160m. That's for me is a very low performance. The good Horizontal Flag can dig signals 22 db below the vertical TX array.
I have been using the Hi-Z 3 element at 50 foot spacing that Lee designed. I can tell you that the results for me were amazing and it gives you 6 directions. It works quite well on 40, 80 and 160. Yo
I put a 3 ele hi z array up last fall, and it's not worth a tinkers dam....at least to me.....may be some local noise....it certainly has directivity, at least on the bcb, so so on 80, but on 160, wh
I had one, Pain in the butt to put up, works well, is directional but at my site Ive never been able to find a RX antenna that heard any better than my inverted L. Including the SAL-30. Ive tried a K
Look into a magnetic loop such as the design by N6RK as described in a past NCJ: http://www.n6rk.com/loopantennas/NCJ_loop_antenna_N6RK.pdf I use one on 160/80 and find it effective at improving the
Hi JC, Not all vertical arrays are mono band. A well built 4-square on a 60 foot per side can do a stellar job on 160, 80, and 40 meters while extending well down into the broadcast band. The 3 eleme
In my location the HI-Z 3 element worked so well on 160 (and up) that I later bought a HI-Z 8 element to use alongside the triangular. Both are invaluable and I'm keeping both. 73, Gary KA1J ________
Author: "Chortek, Robert L." <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 23:21:31 +0000
Not to hijack the thread, but... My Hi-Z Array works reasonably well in 160 (despite being only 40 per side) and very well on both 80 and 40. It has allowed me to work many countries on 80 and 160 I
Agree, my DX Eng 4 sq vertical array (high impedance) is almost always the winner on 160 vs an 85' T, a toss up with a 2L beam @157' on 80m, and rarely better than the 3L 40m @ 140'. So I believe t
A loop such as that has a very narrow null at very low angles, and therefore it's usually not very effective for anything except for local RFI or another local ham. For power line or nearby QRN, it's
I don't have problems with noise...which may be why RX antennas don't perform a whole lot better than my TX antenna. I wouldn't say it's extremely quiet but it's not excessively noisy. Hope to play
I also live in a very quiet location. But put up a directional one-wavelength Beverage pointed at Europe, Asia, Oceana, or Africa, and you'll see how much noise that you *really* have! :-) 73, Mike w
Dont have that much room. My available space is about 150 x 250 with the tower in middle of it. House separates that area from the front yard which is 150 x 150. Had the K9AY in the front yard, also