Topband: Diversity receiving

[Dave Olean]

Hello Andy,

I had a bunch of beverages and would often use the NE Bev and the East 
Bev for diversity reception using an NCC-1  and the K3 with its 2nd 
receiver in diversity mode. It was fantastic so my plan was to work 
towards total diversity reception by adding an 8 circle array for one 
channel and all of my beverages in various directions on channel #2.  
  Well, life has gotten in the way and I took all of my beverages down 
so I could have my woods logged. All of my Feedlines were destroyed and 
I am now wondering what to do as I am past 80 years old and not as  
energetic as in my younger days.  I really want to get the 160 stuff 
rebuilt, but I have had some serious tower fail issues and am still 
working on that.

In listening to diversity reception I was very interested to note that 
the signal would bounce between my ears as signal paths peaked and 
waned. I made a good recording of FT5ZM DXpedition using diversity and 
it was fantastic. FT5ZM was almost on the opposite side of the world 
from me, but the recordings validated the diversity plan 100%. It was so 
much better that I decided to make a new RX system on 1.8 MHz  to use 
diversity all of the time.  I hope to be back on 160 in the future.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 9/28/2025 9:03 AM, Andree DL8LAS via Topband wrBote:
> Hey, does anyone have any experience with diversity reception and phasing from two antennas with the flexradio or NCC1 or NCC2?
> 73 Andy DL8LAS
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