I had some of the terminal copper braiding
on my coax's from the remote antenna
switch to the wire antennas go bad and
corrode away. I replaced them with new
coax and while I was at it, I took the
time to lay out about 8-9 new 100' &
longer radials on the marsh.
I used the new plumbing
Search for...
BOG and K2AV
...in the searchable archives at
http://www.contesting.com/_topband, and you'll wind a wealth of information
about BOGs that is unavailable anywhere else! :-)
The latest version of ON4UN's *Low Band DXing* ARRL book contains some BOG
info also, IIRC.
73, Mike
Stan,
I have very little experience with them, however given your high noise level
and small(ish?) lot (not sure how large it is), would a few BOG's be a
better option I wonder?
Looking forward to seeing you work this one out.
GL !
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick
Hi Stan,
A horizontally polarized receiving antenna only 64 feet high on
160 meters will have exceptionally poor performance at the angles
you need for DX QSOs. The performance is much worse when
both horizontally polarized loops are very small and close spaced
compared to the proven
