Topband: Top Band High Angle Signals

[Dennis W0JX]

I suspect that Guy is on to the strong possibility for the relatively poor RX conditions on 160 this past weekend. I use diversity receive with my K3. The main RX is connected to a "Dual Flag" array (basically a simplified Waller/ expanded DHDL) and a HiZ 4 square on the sub receiver.

The HiZ 4 square responds mostly to low angle signals and very poorly to angle signals. During the contest, I could hardly hear anything on the HiZ out of EU but many signals were very good on the Dual Flag especially ZB2X and ZA1WW. However, both of those stations were having trouble hearing almost all callers.

73, Dennis W0JX
Milan OH