TopBand: Receiving

[Frank Donovan]

Jim,
Congrats on your plan to install a good receiving antenna!  Since you
have the room, I strongly recommend that you install a Beverage!  I'd
recommnen an 880 foot (or even better, an 1160 ft) Beverage.  Beverage
feedpoint impedance is very flat with respect to frequency, and there is
really no need for anything fancy, a 9:1 transformer will match it
directly to a 50 ohm feedline.  

Good luck!
73
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com


On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, James S. Danehy wrote:

> 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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