Hi all, This is only somewhat off topic I think. As I've been playing with diversity reception with my K3, I started researching using Beverage antennas and found some good info on the web and in my ARRL books. Right now, I'm just using an unterminated long wire (about 350') and plugging it directly into the Aux RF port with no impedance transformer. As is, it is working nicely for me on 20-40m when I operate during the day out in my yard. With diversity receive enabled on the K3, I'm able to copy weak signals masked by QSB and the normal summer QRN. It always seems to me that I can hear the signal in one ear or the other if not both most of the time.
So, I started looking at doing a real implementation of a Beverage on my property as I do have some room to play with. I could run one east and west for about 400' or so and another north and south for 550' or so if I run it through my neighbors lots along a fence line (they don't really use this area of their property). As I was researching the various implementations, I came across the K9AY loop which looked pretty interesting. I thought I might combine using the two aforementioned beverages with a K9AY oriented in a NW-SE & NE-SW orientation. In much of the literature I've read about this antenna, I see with the designed dimensions, most use it for 80m & 160m. But I've also read a couple of articles that state it should be good from 300 khz - 30 Mhz. At this point, I really don't do a lot of operating on 80m or 160m and kind of stick around the 20m, 30m and 40m bands. I'm not a contester and primarily a CW op, but like to work weak signals and run QRP. So my question to the group is, for those using diversity reception (or separate receive antennas), and using a K9AY - does it perform well on the HF bands for this purpose? I would also like any input from those who have both Beverages and K9AY for comparison. And, does it make sense to use the setup as I described? Since I can only run Beverages in a couple of directions, I thought the K9AY use in the other directions would cover a lot of bases. I you think this is way too OT, please feel free to contact me privately. I don't want to clog up the reflector if no one else thinks this is of interest. Thanks in advance & 73, Dave W8FGU ______________________________________________________________ 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
