Topband: Beverage is down
Hunters took down my bev on the land behind me. Only 250 foot unterminated, did not seem to be working all that great on 160 but really well on 40 and 30 (towards EU), although 2 months is not enough time to evaluate. So I have re-installed the bevs on my property within boundaries, heagin 330 and 210. Unterminated. 150 foot long each. I am thinking results will be better if I terminate. But should I use a resistor smaller than 470 ohms for these shorter bevs? Still hoping the bevs can do the trick, as I don't have room for EWE or K9AY (although I could do a small receive loop). Thanks in advance Mark Lunday WD4ELG ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Beverage is down
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:35:39 -0600 Mike Waters mikew...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how it will work on 160 being only 150' long. At 150' it is really not long enough to work as a Beverage on 160 meters (a Beverage needs to be 1 x wavelenght long, or more, indeed, 3 to 5 times more). That antenna, however, may still be a good low noise RX antenna, and thus useful. So try it. It sure could be a great RX antenna for 80, 40 and 30 meters. If you have more space, make it longert. If not, lay it on the ground, as a BOG, which can be a lot shorter for a similar pattern, but with lower gain. (i.e. you may need a pre-aplifier). GL es 73, George, AA7JV ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
