Interesting. My preamp only works on 40-160 and I never tried a Beverage
on 20m. I'm not sure what snow is.
John KK9A/4
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Precipitation static
From: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: sawyered@earthlink.net
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:49:14 -0400
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At N1UR, I have parallel - phased - terminated - 1000ft beverages aimed at
Europe. With a 20dB preamp (with gain up to 20Mhz), I can usually receive
EU within 2 S units of the full stack or either of the 2 antennas. First is
always to switch to the bottom antenna during rain or snow static, but if
the signals are favoring the stack or the top antenna (about 50% of the time
at my hillside QTH), I use the beverages and transmit with the best antenna.
The best bang for my buck - bar none - on 160 - 20M - is those phased
beverages to EU. The front to back on 40 and 80M is amazing.
73
Ed N1UR
By the way - here in Vermont is much more likely snow static than rain
static.
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