Rain static in a contest is definitely not fun. If there is a lot of rain
over the whole contest weekend I would rather not operate. Changing the
dipole feed is unlikely to make a difference. I have heard that Quads are
less susceptible to rain static but I do not own one to confirm this. If you
have stacked 40m beams the lower one will be quieter. On 40m a Beverage is
also a good option to have. I wonder what tricks the big multi-multi
stations use to hear on all bands during rain and snow? Perhaps they listen
on their monoband 4 squares.
73,
John KK9A
Guido Tedeschi IK2BCP
On our contest station we have an old but good KLM 3 element linear
loaded Yagi for 40m, 20m high, which works fine except for the high rain
drops noise on RX.
Normally we have an average noise floor of S1, but during last CQWW SSB
and CW contest, we suffered rain during nights and the noise on 40m
raised even to S7-8 when the rain was strong.
Is there anything I can do, to avoid or greatly attenuate that noise?
There is a coil across the dipole feed (sometimes called Hairpin), to
match the impedance to 50 ohm, followed by a current balun/choke; what
if I connect the center of the coil to the boom/ground, could this help?
Thanks and 73
Guido, ik2bcp
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