Topband: CQ 160M Contest and a question about shunt feeding

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

At 02:11 PM 1/20/06, you wrote:

>HOWEVER,  over the next year I am going to put up a 3 element vertical array 
>using parasitic elements switchable in four directions in an effort to get 
>perhaps 4-5 dB ONLY FOR TRANSMIT at my station.  I do not expect it to help 
>me much if any on receive as I have beverages that seem to work quite well. 


Hi Stan,

About 25 percent of the time my 3-el (or 4-el toward Eu) parastic TX vertical array is better than the Beverages on RX. Maybe another 25 percent of the time it is about the same as the Beverages. The phased Bevs. are king only about half of the time.

GL in the test!

73/Jon AA1K
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