> Just how much of an improvement do you find > with diversity > reception? Is it possible to quantize?
Hi Doug. I'm not (yet) on topband but reckon that diversity is worth a few dbs (up to maybe 5 dB?) on the other bands, particularly on 30m where my RX antenna (a 30m fullwave wire loop) works best. Lately I've been trying WSPRnet and find that, on 30m anyway, I can hear QRP sigs in EU down to 0.1 Watt by greyline while the Europeans haven't yet heard me below about 1 W out. My TX antenna on 30 is a rotary wire dipole at 13m AGL on the tower at the far end of 100m of RG213, where I probably lose a couple of dB. The RX loop is up in the trees only 20m away from the shack, also fed with a shorter hank of RG213. I haven't yet tried swapping RX and TX antennas over. 73 Gary ______________________________________________________________ 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
