Hi Roger,
I use 3 short beverages as well, length are two with 45m, the other 60m.
I found them always very useful on 160m and 80m as well during the contests.
Either I hear two different stations Q5 by switching to the right direction,
or hear dx through by notching the European down who is on or very near the
frequency.
I also have a low dipole, but that is much noisier and omni
73
Peter
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Roger Parsons
Several suggested a low dipole as an alternative. That antenna I already
have and whilst it does work well it is more or less omni-directional. It is
also pretty high angle, and my closest population centre (Toronto) is some
400km south of me and full of zero pointers!
Nevertheless, there are certainly times when the low dipole is by far the
best receive antenna on DX signals.
It seems to me that a directional antenna should give me a 3dB (or so)
improvement in s/n, and so I have discounted antennas such as loops, which
while they may give some improvement on local noise have a pattern much like
a dipole.
I am not bothered by local noise on the receive antennas as they are several
thousand feet from any houses or power lines, but of course atmospheric
noise can come from all over.
Andrei, RA6LBS, said that he can switch his Beverages between 1000' and 500'
and notices a dramatic difference between the two settings. I have used
short Beverages in the past and found them pretty good, so I think I will go
that way, particularly as it is the easiest thing to do. (I can switch
between different remote receive antennas and have a spare position so all
that is necessary is a matching transformer, some wire and a termination.)
Thanks again for the input.
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