Neil Kaz writes: > Tell us more about your longwires please! 73 KAZ noting that
he'd have quit this hobby decades ago if it weren't for phasing.
Yes, phasing is truly a remarkable thing. I'm a latecomer to it, having used
indoor loops most of my DXing life, and now I don't know how I ever lived
without it.
I'm currently living pretty deep in the woods near the top of the west side of
a ridge. I have room on my property for a LW of around 150 feet running at
around 20/200 degrees, which I have done at various times. But the land to my
east, up to the top of the ridge, is owned by the Appalachian Trail Society and
essentially unoccupied forest. It's a very steep climb and probably half a
mile up to the trail itself, so it's possible to lay a wire on the ground in
that general direction without bothering anyone. I have one wire that was 500
feet when I put it down, maybe four or five years ago, running more or less
ESE, and a new one about 200 feet to the NE or ENE, both on the ground running
sharply uphill. The new one has noticeably better gain on most frequencies, so
I presume the forces of nature have shortened the 500-footer by now. I'm
planning to replace it when the weather cools off enough for me to climb the
ridge with a new wire. Both are connected at the near en!
d with coax to the Quantum Phaser.
I'm no antenna theoretician, and I have no idea what an uphill on-ground wire
ought to do. I probably could run a bit more than 500 feet ESE if I wanted to,
but there doesn't seem to be much point in trying to turn it into a terminated
BOG at that azimuth -- not many DX targets in that direction, and it seems odd
to run a terminated BOG up a steep ridge -- wouldn't the hill itself block
signals in the target direction? Anything much off that azimuth, and I start
running into natural obstacles or occupied land at well below beverage lengths.
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