Hi Guy and Gals of the DC bands realm. Using the word "Beverage" may be misleading....what about "low noise antenna" or loop, or low longwire?
I have 2 acres here, however the layout and placement of bev's would not be great at all. IE: I could get a bidirectional bev only 120' long, but it would be NW/SE (good only for JA's and ZS6's maybe, hi !) I could however, get something around "most" of the perimeter of my property 250'-360' long (2 or 3 sides of a square only---I couldn't do the full 4 sides due to the driveway...but I do have a culvert I could sneak a wire UNDER the driveway......if I did that, I might be able to get close to 600' loop, but it would only be up 4' in most places (fence posts) and under the driveway for 20'-30 '............Anyone ever used a super low LOOP before? Would it be a cloud burner? Would it be of any use whatsoever? Directivity would be poor to nonexistent, but what about S/N ratio? I noticed in the ARRL SS last week that my very very low ZS6BKW antenna (basically a dipole) played extremely well on 80m CW (RX).....signals were only down perhaps 1-2 S-units over my other low-ish dipole and the noise was knocked down quite considerably ! Thanks Mike VE9AA........currrently rebuilding most everything here. Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge NB Canada E6L 1T1 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
