Oh, I "got that one," right away, Jim! Smiling...
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:55:11 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation > > QRPers generally do not need Beverages as much as other stations > do. > > Think about that one for awhile. > > jim / W1FMR > > > > > --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Milt -- N5IA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Milt -- N5IA <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation > > To: > > Cc: [email protected] > > Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 2:23 PM > > Beverages do NOT make lightning > > caused static crashes go away. They can > > significantly reduce the received level of the crashes from > > the directions > > different from the listening direction. > > > > However, in the listening direction Beverages will actually > > "clear up" the > > crashes being heard from that direction. In other > > words, those crashes will > > become the predominant ones you hear with the exception of > > those caused by > > local storms. > > > > The crashes from the listening direction will not be as > > strong as they will > > be when listening on the TX antenna. > > > > The points I am trying to make are: > > > > 1. Beverages work VERY well. > > > > 2. Beverages will NOT eliminate all static crashes. > > > > 3. There is no silver bullet, but Beverages are about > > as close to the > > perfect solution as you can get. > > > > 4. There is NO substitute for acreage. I > > sincerely wish everyone had the > > capability of installing Beverages. But that wish is > > no different than my > > wish that we all had our TX antennas at the edge of a salty > > ocean beach. > > So, we live with what we have. > > > > Mis dos centavos, > > > > de Milt, N5IA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > From: Guy Olinger K2AV > > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:19 AM > > > > Only if they have space for them. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, K4OWR <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > :::: When I switch to my beverage antenna the noise pretty > > much goes to > > almost nothing. > > Don't most serious operators have one....or more??? > > BILL K4OWR > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > On 3/19/2012 10:22 AM, N7DF wrote: > > > > During the summer the storm static is the main obstacle to > > top band > > operation here 40 over nine crashes every > > 30 seconds kind of drown out > > everything, QRP or QRO > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
