It's the northern hemisphere's Topband Dog Days of DXing and my yearly
MF/HF radio sabbatical has begun. I've started work on changing the
method of feeding my grounded-base driven element tower. I'll be
adding about 350 feet of 1/4" copper tubing to it for a monopole feed.
And, I just received 4400 feet of PINK Beverage wire (the RF should be
better attracted to the more colorful Beverage wire [and the deer say
four hoofs up!]).
I recently received another batch of QSLs from the DX bureau. To
provide some summer fill I thought that I'd make another list of the
topband antennas used by the people who sent cards. Unfortunately
(like me), a lot of the stations with the better signals/antennas
didn't list what antenna that they were using.
Country Power Antenna
Hungary 100 Vertical
Switzerland 500 Vertical
Switzerland 500 Folded Umbrella
Switzerland 750 Dipole
Crimea 100 Longwire
Germany 75 Vertical
Germany 100 Inverted L
Germany SWL W3DZZ
Germany 750 17M Vertical
Slovak Rep 300 Dipole
Sweden 1500 Inverted L
Sweden 1500 1/4 Wave Vertical
Belgium 100 Wire antenna
Austria SWL 15M Longwire
South Africa 400 Shunt Fed Tower
Virgin Is 100 All Band Dipole
73, Bill K0HA
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