Re: Topband: Reversible BOG?

2013-01-12 Thread Carl
- Original Message - From: Jim Miller j...@jtmiller.com To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:17 AM Subject: Re: Topband: Reversible BOG? As a follow up I wonder if rather than using windowline, whose transmission line performance would be subject

Re: Topband: Reversible BOG?

2013-01-12 Thread Grant Saviers
The reversible single coax Beverage is described in ON4UN 's Low Band DXing at least editions 4 5. I've built a couple elevated ones from ebay RG58 and they work fine. I think RG6/RG59 would work as well with small changes to the transformer ratios. Grant KZ1W On 1/11/2013 9:17 PM, Jim

Re: Topband: Reversible BOG?

2013-01-12 Thread Anthony Scandurra
Page 7-89 in the 5th edition of ON4UN's book. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Grant Saviers gran...@pacbell.net wrote: The reversible single coax Beverage is described in ON4UN 's Low Band DXing at least editions 4 5. I've built a couple elevated ones from ebay RG58 and they work fine. I

Re: Topband: Reversible BOG?

2013-01-11 Thread Jim Miller
As a follow up I wonder if rather than using windowline, whose transmission line performance would be subject to variations in weather, it might be better to use coax. The outside of the shield would always be the antenna but the interior acting as the transmission line would not be subject to