TopBand: Receiving

[James S. Danehy]

I have been lurking in the background watching this reflector. I have 
also been listening on the band. I am using an inverted "L" for xmtg and 
rcving. Unfortunately at the moment it is only 30 + ft vertical. I have 
50 radials under it. I hope to get the vertical part to 50 ft this 
weekend if the wx is good. I heard GM3POI last night and he came back 
first call to my 500 watts. I monitor packet and also listened intently 
to QSOs which were all one sided for me (Hrd only US side). Frustrating. 
I live on a small hill top :) about 80 feet above an Interstate hwy. I 
can run a beverage along the top of the ridge above the Interstate for 
quite a ways (500' --> 1,000'). The direction for me would be 60 deg 
one direction and 240 deg the other). My lot is 100' wide and 275' deep. 
Would a loop around the perimeter of the yard be just as good ? I 
thought I would use a small MFJ tuner that I have in conjunction with an 
MFJ swr analyzer that a friend of mine has to match the beverage to the 
coax run. Should I go to a balun ?

Any comments would be appreciated. I got to hear better ! ! !

Thanks

73

Jim W9VNE
w9vne@fuse.net

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