In suburbia Houston, I was fortunate to have some nice very tall pine trees in which I had an inverted L with one elevated radial (up 20') bent to fit the 60' x 90' lot. It was fed through a ferrite bead balun. Power output was 600 watts. The rx antenna was a K9AY and one side of the rx antenna was about 6' from the radial! UGH! I 1) used rx protection; 2) decoupled the tx antenna by a relay in the coax at the 1/4 wavelength point; 3) used ferrite bead chokes on the feed line of the rx antenna, at the antenna and at the rig. The K9AY loop has a broad rx pattern so when I set it up, it was orientated for the noise source to be in the null.
I tried a magnetic type loop and it seemed to work ok but the "AY" loop was better BUT I could play with diversity reception and occasionally that made the difference between hearing and making a Q. My ON4UN low band handbook is highly dog-eared and I did manage over 150 countries at that QTH (now I am in the country). GL es 73, Mike WA5POK On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:11 AM, Jim Miller <j...@jtmiller.com> wrote: Regardless of which RX antenna you chose make sure to detune your transmit antenna when receiving. This is especially important on a small lot where adequate separation is not possible. 73 Jim ab3cv On Monday, February 8, 2016, Joe Moffatt <j...@selectconnect.net> wrote: > I am needing advice from any with a K3 for 160 receive antennas. > > I just don't have room for Beverages, but I do have some backyard area. > The average noise floor here is about S7 ok my Inverted L. > > Of course there are times it is much higher, but that is the norm. > > I am wondering if a small loop, EWE, flag etc is what you guys would > recommend. > > I am looking for anyone with a relatively small space that could give > advice. > > What would you do or have you done? > Trying to get my 160 DXCC, and I'm half way there on 160. > > Joe > AB5OR > > > > > > > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net <javascript:;> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to j...@jtmiller.com <javascript:;> ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to mikefur...@att.net ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com