[TowerTalk] WSW beverage noise reduction

[n4kg@juno.com]

Probably so.

I remember once hearing S9 atmospheric noise on 80M
and switching to my NE Beverage where the noise dropped
to S1 and the band was full of Europeans.  There was a
storm reported in the Gulf of Mexico.  I would expect a
WSW Beverage would have picked up that noise just fine!

de Tom N4KG

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:03:57 +0000 alsopb <alsopb@gloryroad.net> writes:
> 
> 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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