Topband: How Good is Good Enough?

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Mike:

I had 2 element BOGS and a LOG Loop at my former QTH - Yes the signal level
is less than a standard elevated beverage.  I had excellent results using a 
preamp in the shack.  I didn't have Beverages to compare signal levels with
but I know from using Beverages at two contest stations where I multi-op
that standard beverage signal levels are higher, how much I can't confirm.

73,
Jack


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
>
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