Topband: It is not so much propagation

[James Rodenkirch]

Oh, I "got that one," right away, Jim!  Smiling...

 

 

> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:55:11 -0700
> From: j_fitton at yahoo.com
> To: n5ia at zia-connection.com
> CC: Topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation
> 
> 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
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > From: Guy Olinger K2AV
> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:19 AM
> > 
> > Only if they have space for them.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 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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> > 
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