[TowerTalk] 4-square questions

[Don Moman VE6JY]

If I didn't use the 80m squares and the 160 square as a primary rx
antennas,  I'd hardly hear anything.  Most of the fancy specialized rx
antennas just don't capture enough signal to be of much use - not up here
in signal starved Western Canada.  Too far inland and too far north!
Occasionally (but rarely on dx) one of the beverages proves useful s/n
enhancement.

73
Don
VE6JY

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Are people really using 4 squares as their primary receiving antennas on
> 160
> - 40?  I am surprised if so.  4 squares on the low bands should be all
> about
> steerable gain in my opinion.  Heck I even use my beverages on 40M half the
> time and I have a 3 el beam.  On 80M I have a 2 el wire beam and use the
> beverages to receive about 80% of the time.  The exception being an
> EXTREMELY quiet winter evening.  On 160, I have a 2 el phased array to
> Europe that is about 1.5 db less than a 4 square and I have NEVER used it
> to
> receive.
>
>
>
> Ed  N1UR
>
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