Topband: Any Chinese stations with Big Sigs operating on 160?

[Michael Tope]

In the case of that 160 meter dipole it was almost always better as a 
receive antenna for 80 meters. It was better at rejecting ferocious 
local QRN than the 80 meter inverted-V. Absolute signal level always 
dropped owing to the mismatch, but the noise level dropped even more 
improving SNR (from really deaf to pretty deaf). I am sure there were 
cases where the 80 meter inverted-V was better, but that was the 
exception not the rule.

I agree that Ken has the nice problem of having lots of antennas to 
chose from for RX :-)

73, Mike W4EF............


On 4/3/2024 2:20 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> At N6RO's superstation (among other things, it was the antenna labo of 
> ARRL Antenna Book Editor N6BV, who lives 100 miles away in the city of 
> San Francisco), Ken patches lots of antennas to his operating position 
> for 160M contests for use as RX antennas. The reason is simple -- the 
> elevation, and even the horizontal direction at which signals arrive 
> can vary widely with time, based on propagation.  Ken is a very smart 
> engineer, and a bunch of very smart engineers and operators are on his 
> team.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC