On 3/6/17 2:43 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
Are people really using 4 squares as their primary receiving antennas on 160
- 40? I am surprised if so. 4 squares on the low bands should be all about
steerable gain in my opinion. Heck I even use my beverages on 40M half the
time and I have a 3 el beam. On 80M I have a 2 el wire beam and use the
beverages to receive about 80% of the time. The exception being an
EXTREMELY quiet winter evening. On 160, I have a 2 el phased array to
Europe that is about 1.5 db less than a 4 square and I have NEVER used it to
receive.
A beverage isn't exactly steerable and requires more room. I suppose
that from a "making Qs" standpoint, you could probably figure out the
directions to the likely areas and do just those.
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