The Receive Four Square using active antennas is also worth looking at.
www.dxengineering.com
73, John W8JJW
>
> Many thanks to all who replied both on the list and privately.
>
> 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.
>
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
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