Topband: Receiving loops

Sam Morgan k5oai.sam at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 07:46:07 PDT 2012


you want to talk alligators
try a 7' tall vertical @ 20' as your only TX/RX antenna
and a bottom floor apartment, where I might try a 6' loop
if I can build it in the next few hours, hi hi
gud luck Tim

GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 6/16/2012 8:28 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
> I want to try a new receiving antenna for the summer Stew Perry. Last winter
> was my first foray onto 160M and I really felt like an alligator. I could
> work everyone I could hear, with just 100W. I think that means I need a
> better receive antenna. If you look at my score in the winter Stew Perry I
> think I did great QSO-number wise, but my average distance was very poor, I'm
> guessing typical alligator.


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