Topband: It is not so much propagation

[Jim F.]

QRPers generally do not need Beverages as much as other stations
do.

Think about that one for awhile.

jim / W1FMR




--- On Mon, 3/19/12, Milt -- N5IA <n5ia at zia-connection.com> wrote:

> From: Milt -- N5IA <n5ia at zia-connection.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation
> To: 
> Cc: Topband at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 2:23 PM
> Beverages do NOT make lightning
> caused static crashes go away.  They can 
> significantly reduce the received level of the crashes from
> the directions 
> different from the listening direction.
> 
> However, in the listening direction Beverages will actually
> "clear up" the 
> crashes being heard from that direction.  In other
> words, those crashes will 
> become the predominant ones you hear with the exception of
> those caused by 
> local storms.
> 
> The crashes from the listening direction will not be as
> strong as they will 
> be when listening on the TX antenna.
> 
> The points I am trying to make are:
> 
> 1.  Beverages work VERY well.
> 
> 2.  Beverages will NOT eliminate all static crashes.
> 
> 3.  There is no silver bullet, but Beverages are about
> as close to the 
> perfect solution as you can get.
> 
> 4.  There is NO substitute for acreage.  I
> sincerely wish everyone had the 
> capability of installing Beverages.  But that wish is
> no different than my 
> wish that we all had our TX antennas at the edge of a salty
> ocean beach. 
> So, we live with what we have.
> 
> Mis dos centavos,
> 
> de Milt, N5IA
> 
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> 
> From: Guy Olinger K2AV
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:19 AM
> 
> Only if they have space for them.
> 
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> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, K4OWR <k2owr at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> :::: When I switch to my beverage antenna the noise pretty
> much goes to
> almost nothing.
> Don't most serious operators have one....or more???
> BILL K4OWR
> 
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> 
> On 3/19/2012 10:22 AM, N7DF wrote:
> 
> During the summer the storm static is the main obstacle to
> top band
> operation here   40 over nine crashes every
> 30 seconds kind of drown out
> everything, QRP or QRO
> 
> 
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