Topband: Unterminated WOG/BOG

[Sean Waite]

Thanks for the tips all. Seems like the best option (aside from talking to
my neighbors...) is to just toss it out there and see what happens. I
understand it'll probably not be great on 160, but maybe it'll get me
something on 80.

Sean WA1TE

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:37 PM Dan <w8car at bex.net> wrote:

> What George said!
>
> Dan W8CAR
> CWOPS #1220
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k8gg at voyager.net
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 2:00 PM
> To: Sean Waite
> Cc: topband
> Subject: Re: Topband: Unterminated WOG/BOG
>
> Hi All,
>
> IMHO, 150 feet of beverage for 160 is too little.
>
> I would prefer a pennant or flag loop antenna aimed at Europe.  It works!
>
> Also, being only about 30 feet in length, one can keep it on one's
> property.  At a previous QTH I spaced two pennants 160 feet apart,
> broadside, toward Europe and either fed them to a magic tee in phase.
> Worked well, did not pick up neighbor's spurious signals from home
> entertainment devices, etc.
> Even a single pennant works well enough, as long as one has a decent
> preamp.
>
> George,  K8GG
>
>
> > I've discovered that the woods off the corner of my property give me a
> > good
> > straight run where I could run a 150' or so beverage pointed directly at
> > EU.
> >
> > The difficulty is...it's not my property there, but a wooded area
> > connected
> > to a neighboring apple farm. It isn't being used, but it's still a little
> > shady to run an antenna there.
> >
> > I was thinking of getting something like this
> > https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/svp-sv-bog  and running a wire into
> > the
> > woods.
> >
> > The difficulty is that these seem to want to be terminated at the far
> end,
> > but I've seen people talking about using them unterminated. Given this
> > isn't my land, I'd rather not drive a ground rod on the far end - we also
> > have pretty rock soil and getting the rods into the ground is a bear.
> >
> > -Can I only have a ground rod at the near (feed) end and just leave the
> > far
> > end unterminated?
> > -If I ran a longer wire, but zig zagged it how would that affect the
> > receive ability?
> >
> > I figure a black length of wire laying on the ground will go basically
> > un-noticed and be out of the way. Any thoughts?
> >
> > Sean Waite, WA1TE
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