Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Not really if it is a gentle slope since IMHO the arrival angle of the 
incoming signal will most likely not be bothered.  The slope may 
actually attenuate some ground wave noise in those directions a bit thus 
improving the S/N ratio.



Herb, KV4FZOn 9/1/2017 6:37 AM, Ed wrote:
> Yes, Herb. I have considered this, too. But I think I may run into the 
> same problem with sloping terrain. Thoughts?
>
> On Sep 1, 2017, at 13:13, Herbert Schoenbohm 
> <herbert.schoenbohm at gmail.com <mailto:herbert.schoenbohm at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Since your space is limited to preclude a bunch of Beverages I would 
>> highly recommend the SAL-30 which is a shared loop array from Array 
>> Solutions. This is really a high performance antenna and should give 
>> you every thing you need.
>>
>> https://www.arraysolutions.com/as-sal-30
>>
>> Herb, KV4FZ
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Ed via Topband 
>> <topband at contesting.com <mailto:topband at contesting.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Greetings from Saudi Arabia!  I think a lot about my home QTH in
>>     California and how I want to make the most of my antenna potential.
>>
>>     I have an area that I would like to devote to receiving antennas,
>>     that's about 150' square feet. Thought about the DXE Active 4 Sq
>>     array but they say installing this on Sloping terrain will
>>     degrade its performance. In my case, the slope is about 30-35
>>     degrees, so I'm sure that limits me.
>>
>>     The transmitting antenna area is about 300-400 feet away, which
>>     provides adequate isolation from where I want to install a
>>     receiving antenna. Trying to figure out what is most suitable. 
>>     In addition to 160m, I am also interested in BCB DXing and some
>>     the demonstrations viewed on YouTube are quite impressive!
>>
>>     Would really appreciate some input. I can always provide my home
>>     address, where the two antenna areas can be seen on Google Maps.
>>
>>     73,
>>     Ed NI6S/7Z1ES
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