Topband: prop this morning

Paul Kelley N1BUG paul.kelley.n1bug at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 07:37:12 EDT 2008


Gary Nichols wrote:
> Were my antennas broken this morning or did all signals seem the same
> regardless of which antenna was connected to the receiver?  8 beverages and
> k9ay all sounded the same for nearly all signals on the band today.  Did
> others experience the same thing?

I didn't notice it on the morning in question, but I barely 
listened. However, I have observed this several times, usually 
around sunset or sunrise, but not always. In every such case, 
signals were much better on my low inverted V than any of the 
Beverages or the vertical, indicating a high angle of arrival. 
Beverages (and some other receive antennas) may show little 
directivity for very high angle signals.

73,
Paul N1BUG


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