Topband: Beverage Antenna Tuning

Richard (Rick) Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Fri Jul 6 13:35:22 EDT 2018


On 7/4/2018 8:09 AM, pa5mw at home.nl wrote:


> Groundwave BC signals arrive at 0 degrees; you want to adjust FB at incoming
> skywave (10< >50 degrees) signals instead
> What reference you should use depends on your QTH and the first wave of
> incoming (Europe?) QRM
> 

I would like to respectfully disagree, at least for my QTH.  What I
find is that my noise is dominated by local ground wave sources.
I want a null at the horizon=ground wave.  I don't see background
noise vary much between day and night.  Especially on vertically
polarized antennas.

Rick N6RK


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