[TowerTalk] WSW beverage noise reduction

[alsopb]

Guys,

I wonder if any of you have experienced this.

First, I built a 550' beverage for 80/160 pointing just south of west.
I also built one pointing NE.

I then followed the ON4UN method to determine the proper value of
terminating resisitor (look for dips when sweeping 1.5-7Mhz and find
the resistor which minimizes them).

The NE beverage shows a considerable reduction in atmospherics and
decent directivity.

The WSW beverage shows decent directivity but not as much atmospheric
noise rejection like the NE beverage.  

Is this because the WSW beverage is pointing into the predominant
noise direction or ????

de Brian/K3KO

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