A couple of thoughts... 5 clip-on ferrites is extremely insufficient at 160m, get some small diameter coax and large toroid core for decoupling. http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf http://www.karinya.net/g3txq/chokes/
Set up your beverages as reversible. The ability to switch between forward and reverse will tell you a great deal about your environment and is a good day-to-day indicator of the correct or incorrect functioning of the beverage. 73 Lloyd - N9LB On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:44 PM, terry burge <[email protected]> wrote: > I put up my first beverage recently. It's about 550-600 feet of 17 > gauge electric fence wire running to the north about 6-7 feet high. > Not terminated right now but using a beverage transformer I purchased > on qth.com and have not put on the termination yet. Using a 5' > galvanized ground rod at the transformer and 75 ohm RG-6 surplus I got > about 35 feet to my K-3 Elecraft thru an Array Solutions frontend > protector to the RX antenna connection. > > All I get is S-5 static on the beverage. Even the strong stations > barely make a ripple of noise. Is this right? > > I added some clamp on ferrites to see if the Common Mode Noise would > be cut down but after putting 5 on the RG-6 coax there is no > difference. Just that S-5 static level on any band 80/40/20/etc. Right > now I'm listening to P49MR on 14.250.0 Mhz and his 57 signal does not > even come thru on the beverage when I switch to RX antenna? > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
