Hi Jim. I also am on a small (125' square) lot, in the city.
I have been using BOGs and 14'x29' Flags, with an 80 meter inverted L base-loaded for 160. This year I added a 20' Shared Apex Loop Array. Yes, my antennas are too close to each other. The SALA routinely outperforms the Flags. Sometimes the BOGs are best for a given station, sometimes the SALA. When I was running Stateside this weekend I would listen South and West simultaneously. It seemed to work well. Additionally, you may want to "float" or detune your inverted L during rx, especially if your rx antennas are close. My tx antenna was re-radiating quite a bit of noise; floating it cured the problem. 73, Redd - AI2N ---- Jim Miller <j...@jtmiller.com> wrote: > I put up an inverted L for the 160 contest and as expected my beverages did > a nice job of improving the receive performance over it. The inverted L did > a good job of spraying my 500w watts around and I'm satisfied with it as > well. Best LOTW confirmed DX so far is Ukraine. Not bad for the first few > days. > > I did experience quite a bit of QSB as expected and would like to play with > diversity. My brief attempt at doing diversity with the inverted L in > combination with the beverage wasn't encouraging however. The S/N of the > inverted L in the left ear only provided a distraction trying to discern > the better S/N but fading signal in the right from the beverage. > > At this point my primary interest is 160m diversity implementations. Any > suggestions based on experience with an inverted L and beverage? Any > suggestions for a second antenna other than these two that would > potentially work better when combined with the beverage? > > Note: I'm on a partially wooded 1 acre lot in a HOA so big receive > structures like an 8 circle aren't possible. My beverages are BOGs for that > reason. > > Thanks > > jim ab3cv > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
