[TowerTalk] Precipitation static

[Stan Stockton]

John,

I have used a long beverage with a thousand feet of coax with great success on the high bands and no preamp at all.  Amazing that sometimes the signal strength is comparable to large Yagi antennas on 20m.

Stan, K5GO

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> On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:32 AM, "john at kk9a.com" <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  My preamp only works on 40-160 and I never tried a Beverage
> on 20m.  I'm not sure what snow is.
> 
> John KK9A/4
> 
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> To:    <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:    Re: [TowerTalk] Precipitation static
> From:    "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net>
> Reply-to:    sawyered at earthlink.net
> Date:    Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:49:14 -0400
> \
> 
> At N1UR, I have parallel - phased - terminated - 1000ft beverages aimed at
> Europe.  With a 20dB preamp (with gain up to 20Mhz), I can usually receive
> EU within 2 S units of the full stack or either of the 2 antennas.  First is
> always to switch to the bottom antenna during rain or snow static, but if
> the signals are favoring the stack or the top antenna (about 50% of the time
> at my hillside QTH), I use the beverages and transmit with the best antenna.
> The best bang for my buck - bar none - on 160 - 20M - is those phased
> beverages to EU.  The front to back on 40 and 80M is amazing.
> 
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> 
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
> 
> 
> By the way - here in Vermont is much more likely snow static than rain
> static.
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