TopBand: receiving antennas

[Stan Seiffert]

Merry Christmas
 
After reading all the interesting posts on beverages vs. transmitting arrays  I am wondering whether anyone else has had my experience? and if perhaps if qth or transmitting antenna height makes a difference.
Over the years I have built several beverages, one wire and two wire, end fed and center fed mostly 600 ft long with various terminations and amplifiers, a ewe, several different magnetic loops, a full wave horizontal loop 10 ft high, a snake,  sloping delta , elevated 600 ft long wire,  etc. (I have undoubtedly forgotten some).  All these antennas were in quiet locations over rough, poor ground and usually several hundred feet from my transmitting antenna  They usually worked, but, in no case did they outperform my transmitting antenna which was usually a short (40 ft) toploaded vertical or array of 2 or 4 short verticals.  The only exception was at sunrise to VK when a low inverted vee outperforms the verticals on both transmit and receive.  Most of my dxing is with the ocean or sunlight behind  me.  
I would like to hear from anyone else with similar experience or is it just me?

73   Stan W7AWA

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