Indeed, I agree that a horizontal antenna may be less noisy than the ground mounted vertical.
You can try a simple wire dipole made of hook up wire at little expense to check local noise situation and its orientation may make a big difference in noise. The wire should not be parallel and at same height as any power wiring. You might experiment with orientation for desired directions vs. noise pickup, then make a permanent antenna based on that. If you do get a ground mounted vertical, you could do what I did with my Gap Titan, elevate it 6 or 7 feet to walk under radials/ counterpoise, and that also lessens noise pickup in the Titan case. Now the Titan does shield the feedline inside the off center feed for several feet and that may be operating to cut noise, as a waveguide beyond cutoff filter. 73, Stuart K5KVH _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
