Topband: 160m receiving antennas

[Valeri Stefanov]

IMHO the best receiving antenna on top band is properly installed beverage
antenna which is at least 240m long ( 240 - 400m long).

Such an antenna installed 1.5 m above ground and used with variable gain
preamplifier combined with 160m BC filter will give you very good S/N ratio
and hardly could be beaten by other known RX antennas.

But TOP band is such unpredictable band that anything can go in given
situation. There were times I was coping the station only on TX verticals or
on shorty  80m long wire 0.5m above ground, or on single element 40m band
Loop which was only 2m above ground !?!?!
So, the more RX antennas available the better.
Some guys years ago proposed using a wire made 160m yagi 3m above ground.
Never tried it myself , but why not to experiment a bit ?

CU in CQWW 160m if weather is good enough to let us reach the LZ8T contest
location.

73's de Wally LZ2CJ ( LZ8T & YM3LZ)