Joe, I really wouldn't bend a mini-BOG wire 60 degrees as you'll damage the
directivity. The advantage of these antennas comes from their directivity.
For sure, 200' straight is superior to 100' and there's a clear difference
on upper AM freqs and again if you could go to 300'.
But you don't have that much room, so I'd just go as far as I could in a
STRAIGHT line on the ground. I wouldn't bend more than 10 degrees from my
experiences.
If you can put in two 100' mini-BOGs about 40 degrees different in bearing I
suspect you'll note different stations dominating some of the upper band
regionals and GY's at night. There will be big backend pickup from short
BOGs, but you can phase one vs the other to knock out backend pests or to
knock out a pest in the main direction to DX off the back end. The phase
null will be like superimposing a cardiod onto the combined pattern of the
two mini-BOGs added up.
73 KAZ
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Russ and Marc,
Thx for your answers.
I guess what I could do that might do the trick, now that it's time to
start
mowing again... cut the grass as short as possible, lay the antenna wires
down as close to the ground as possible, use lawn staples to hole the wire
in place, and then the lawn clippings and earthworms will eventually bury
the wires. If I put in a 60 degree turn, I could manage to get in 200'
that
way quite easily.
JM
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:11:17 -0400, Russ Johnson wrote
I think you would not get the directivity associated with a
beverage. I have gotten decent directivity with "mini-beverages"
(under 200 ft) terminated with resistor to grounding rod. I would
try running a wire as long as you can and terminating it vs. the
back and forth wire. See what that does for you.
-- 73 de Joe Miller, KJ8O, Troy, MI -- Grid EN82 --
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