Topband: RX antennas

[Roger Parsons]

I have consistently found that a low 160m dipole will
_sometimes_ be the best receive antenna, and would
expect an 80m or 40m dipole to behave in a similar
way. This is true here with 12 beverages and was true
from G3RBP with 5 beverages. Both of these locations
were/are electrically quiet, and I would emphasise
that this happens only for a small percentage of the
time.

I could never find any correlation in England, but
here I note that the dipole is usually better during
periods of high geomagnetic activity, and I presume
that high angles predominate at that time. It is not
however often helpful that I can hear well when my
transmit signals are being more or less totally
absorbed!

73 Roger
VE3ZI



	
	
		
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