I put up an inverted L for the 160 contest and as expected my beverages did a nice job of improving the receive performance over it. The inverted L did a good job of spraying my 500w watts around and I'm satisfied with it as well. Best LOTW confirmed DX so far is Ukraine. Not bad for the first few days.
I did experience quite a bit of QSB as expected and would like to play with diversity. My brief attempt at doing diversity with the inverted L in combination with the beverage wasn't encouraging however. The S/N of the inverted L in the left ear only provided a distraction trying to discern the better S/N but fading signal in the right from the beverage. At this point my primary interest is 160m diversity implementations. Any suggestions based on experience with an inverted L and beverage? Any suggestions for a second antenna other than these two that would potentially work better when combined with the beverage? Note: I'm on a partially wooded 1 acre lot in a HOA so big receive structures like an 8 circle aren't possible. My beverages are BOGs for that reason. Thanks jim ab3cv ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
