I strongly agree with this, and while I haven't seen that book, I just
published an applications note about chokes and transformers for
receiving antennas that includes the concepts quoted from that book.
I often work DX contests running 5W, including most 160M contests. The
stations that are able to work me are those with good RX antennas. That
matters a lot in contests like the Stew Perry, where each contact is
scored by a formula that includes multipliers for distance and for the
power used on each end. The guy on the other end of a QSO with a QRP
station gets extra points for that QSO.
A few years ago, I was attempting to work three DXpeditions that were
around the Antarctic circle on 160M. I was running legal limit, and they
could hear me, but the hardest part of the QSO was me hearing them,
thanks to my local noise. I worked all three of them, but at least one
of them would not have made it into the log without the Beverage I have
pointed in that direction.
I also do a lot of contesting running legal limit, and in some contests
where power is limited to 100W. I have very good TX antennas for 80 and
40, so a lot of east coast stations are calling me, often with not so
good antennas. I'm able to hear and work more of them because of the
Beverage I have pointed in that direction.
Not everyone benefits from RX antennas -- those who don't care to work
weak stations, and those with very low local noise levels, for example.
And not everyone CAN install RX antennas -- most of us are lucky to be
able rig a TX antenna. That was my situation when I lived on city lots
in the middle of Chicago, and even in the WV city where I grew up!
73, Jim K9YC
On 9/9/2018 5:58 AM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
The ARRL recently published a book “Receiving Antennas for the Radio Amateur”.
It maintains that “The function of transmitting antennas is to radiate power
efficiently, while the function of receiving antennas is to present the best
signal-to-noise ratio to the receiver”. It maintains that “using the same
antenna for transmitting and receiving roughly coincided with the advent of the
transceiver in the 1950s and 1960s.” And “The glaring differences in priorities
between transmitting and receiving antennas becomes...well...glaring...when we
start looking into the concept of efficiency.” And “some of the most effective
receiving antennas are abysmally poor performers when efficiency alone is
considered”.
It’s an interesting book.
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