Re: Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

2017-09-02 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Greetings Topband antenna guys, As a manufacturer of shortened vertical element receiving antennas, I have been asked the question about sloping ground many times. It occurred to me one day that I could use Eznec to solve the question. What I did was to slope the elements with respect to

Re: Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

2017-09-02 Thread James Wolf
] On Behalf Of Bryon Paul Veal NØAH Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2017 1:51 PM To: Ed; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain? Ed, My E/W K9AY loop is on a slope and works fb.. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On September 1

Re: Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

2017-09-02 Thread Bryon Paul Veal NØAH
Ed, My E/W K9AY loop is on a slope and works fb.. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On September 1, 2017 2:58:09 AM Ed via Topband wrote: > Greetings from Saudi Arabia! I think a lot about my home QTH in California > and how I want to make

Re: Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

2017-09-01 Thread Herbert Schoenbohm
Not really if it is a gentle slope since IMHO the arrival angle of the incoming signal will most likely not be bothered.  The slope may actually attenuate some ground wave noise in those directions a bit thus improving the S/N ratio. Herb, KV4FZOn 9/1/2017 6:37 AM, Ed wrote: Yes, Herb. I

Topband: Best Receive Antenna over Sloping Terrain?

2017-09-01 Thread Ed via Topband
Greetings from Saudi Arabia! I think a lot about my home QTH in California and how I want to make the most of my antenna potential. I have an area that I would like to devote to receiving antennas, that's about 150' square feet. Thought about the DXE Active 4 Sq array but they say installing