G'day
I have had a number of 'food for thought' responses to my original email
about the perspective from the DX end of a pile-up. The one from Paul N1BUG
below has made me re-think my current way of operating. It is always good to
see things from another's perspective.
If the DCX
Besides the benefits mentioned, I find the BOG has less QRN, NOISE, in
disturbed conditions. Then it can often make the difference between working
some DX, and working no DX.
73,
Bruce-K1FZ
www.qsl.net/k1fz/
I agree the BOGs are great for local crud reduction and in a suburban area
while
I used several short bogs back in the 80's on a small urban lot where their
length was about 120'. I got the information on them from John K9DX. The
interesting thing was that the bog wire was coax (I used RG-174)where the far
end was shorted shield to center conductor and at the transformer
TopBanders, BottomBanders and Everybody in Between,
Within a few short hours the starting bell for the 17th Edition of
The Stew
Perry TopBand DX Challenge will sound. We do not fire off the ceremonial
cannon
anymore since the bail money for our leader was becoming substantial.
Please
