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

[Wes]

With all due respect there is an awful lot of presumption here.  Not everyone 
has the space for one or more Beverage antennas.  I have 1 3/4 acre but the way 
my vertical, HF tower, house, neighbors' houses, etc are sited there isn't room 
for an array of Beverage antennas.

Wes  N7WS


On 12/24/2022 12:38 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
> Yes, the advantages of having good Beverage antennas in addition to an
> inverted-L are very well established indeed. I (and thousands of other
> Topbanders) can vouch for that from personal experience.
>
> Yes, there are times when your inverted-L will out-hear good Beverages.
> Even DX, *but that is the exception rather than the rule.*
>
> The information I wrote below will tell you nearly everything you need to
> know about building effective Beverage antennas:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20181115070846/http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html
>
> The biggest mistake people make is not installing their Beverages in the
> correct orientation to the DX. See the information near the bottom of my
> old webpage there about that.
>
> 73 Mike
> W0BTU
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 8:38 AM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
>
>> Rune has kindly spoken up, making some of this discussion moot but I will
>> continue anyway.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I may speak more about RX antennas in another message.
>>
>> Wes  N7WS
>>
>>
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