Topband: How Good is Good Enough?

[Mike Waters]

How does the signal level from a BOG compare to the signal level from an
elevated Beverage? I'm sure the output from a BOG is less. But how much
less? Enough to require a remote preamp? I've always wondered.

I --and many others-- have found a remote preamp on an *elevated* Beverage
to be totally unnecessary, even with the lossy matching transformers that I
used in the past. The only DC I ever run down my ~600' of  RG-6 feeding a
Beverage is to reverse directions.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>wrote:

> I have about 350 feet of quad-shield RG-6 ... it has only one BOG on it
>