Topband: 160 meter starter antennas

[Paul Mclaren]

Bruce,

Yes, yes and yes. 9:1 transformers, beverage friendly resistors (cant
remember the exact spec) with about 1" connection to the ground rods.
Ground rods not that long but shallow clay bed here anyway and a mossy lawn
due to the lack of drainage so fair conductivity. Coax is just pushed about
1" into a slit in the lawn so not ideal and needs a more permanent
solution. To be honest it was a quick and dirty experiment so will get
improved when I do some landscaping the xyl has requested which naturally
will include new buried coax conduits and more radials.

Regards

Paul MM0ZBH





On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 at 17:57, K1FZ-Bruce <k1fz at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
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> Glad you are ready to work DX
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> Are the Beverage antenna transformer and termination resistor  close to
> the ground rods, with short interconnect wires.?
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> Are your coax cables buried to help with noise pick up.?
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> Some of the small metal loops are not as good as the larger wire home
> built ones.
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> DX is getting much better  most notice-able at sunrise & sunset.
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> 73
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> Bruce
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> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:25:25 +0100, Paul Mclaren <paul.mcl at gmail.com>
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> I am in that category only having put up inverted L for 160m as an
> extension on my 40m quarterwave vertical recently.   Receive antennas are
> Wellbrook loop and a couple of 40m beverages point NE/SW on top of a 7 foot
> high boundary wall.  This was only put in place in the summer so yet to try
> my first winter and can't really believe I will hear anything Stateside or
> beyond - my best DX so far with limited effort is A65.   The beverages are
> not very directional on 160m but hear into the local suburban noise better
> than the loop plus they work well on 80m and 40m RX as a bonus.
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> I'll take any criticism going but for a normal UK house my garden is
> pretty average so I have to make do.
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> Regards
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> Paul MM0ZBH
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> Bruce-k1fz
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