Topband: Small Loop does not receive weak signal on 160m BOUVET RX SPOILER

[Mike Waters]

All,

Kindly direct questions to this group, and not to me privately. TIA.

73 Mike
W0BTU

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 1:49 PM Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oops! DON'T use an RF choke for a single-wire Beverage. Just the OY 470
> ohm resistor to a good RF ground. Sorry.
>
> 73 Mike
> W0BTU
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 1:44 PM Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You need to drain off the snow static etc. with a resistor in series with
>> a proper RF choke. The values are on this page. And buy the Ohmite resistor
>> specified! :-)
>>
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20181115070846/http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 12:34 PM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you have RX antennas that allowed you to work through the snow
>>> storms?  Here
>>> in AZ we can draw an ac in a PL259 in a dust storm.
>>>
>>> Wes  N7WS
>>>
>>