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

[David Raymond]

There's no need for a lot of real estate to get good RX performance.  
The Hi-Z three element and four element phased vertical arrays have a 
small footprint and yield a worthwhile and useful RDF.  The vertical 
elements are essentially ground independent, can be made of almost 
anything, and can be any reasonable length (obviously shorter elements 
have less capture area).  I have no fiduciary interest in Hi-Z or DXE 
but am a very satisfied, long term user of the Hi-Z-300 eight circle array.

73. . . Dave, W0FLS

On 12/24/2022 3:18 PM, Wes wrote:
> 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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