Topband: Preliminary Summer Stew Scores (160 meters)
The preliminary scores for the recent Summer Stew can now be found on the Stew webpage: http://www.kkn.net/stew There is still plenty of time to send in your log to t...@contesting.com. 73 Tree N6TR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: Presentation at the 2017 Dayton Top Band Dinner
The excellent presentation from Nodir, EY8MM that was given at the 2017 Top Band Dinner in Dayton is now available for download. Go to: http://topbanddinner.com Click on Presentations. 73 Tim K3LR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Unterminated WOG/BOG
Hi All, IMHO, 150 feet of beverage for 160 is too little. I would prefer a pennant or flag loop antenna aimed at Europe. It works! Also, being only about 30 feet in length, one can keep it on one's property. At a previous QTH I spaced two pennants 160 feet apart, broadside, toward Europe and either fed them to a magic tee in phase. Worked well, did not pick up neighbor's spurious signals from home entertainment devices, etc. Even a single pennant works well enough, as long as one has a decent preamp. George, K8GG > I've discovered that the woods off the corner of my property give me a > good > straight run where I could run a 150' or so beverage pointed directly at > EU. > > The difficulty is...it's not my property there, but a wooded area > connected > to a neighboring apple farm. It isn't being used, but it's still a little > shady to run an antenna there. > > I was thinking of getting something like this > https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/svp-sv-bog and running a wire into > the > woods. > > The difficulty is that these seem to want to be terminated at the far end, > but I've seen people talking about using them unterminated. Given this > isn't my land, I'd rather not drive a ground rod on the far end - we also > have pretty rock soil and getting the rods into the ground is a bear. > > -Can I only have a ground rod at the near (feed) end and just leave the > far > end unterminated? > -If I ran a longer wire, but zig zagged it how would that affect the > receive ability? > > I figure a black length of wire laying on the ground will go basically > un-noticed and be out of the way. Any thoughts? > > Sean Waite, WA1TE > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: Unterminated WOG/BOG
I've discovered that the woods off the corner of my property give me a good straight run where I could run a 150' or so beverage pointed directly at EU. The difficulty is...it's not my property there, but a wooded area connected to a neighboring apple farm. It isn't being used, but it's still a little shady to run an antenna there. I was thinking of getting something like this https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/svp-sv-bog and running a wire into the woods. The difficulty is that these seem to want to be terminated at the far end, but I've seen people talking about using them unterminated. Given this isn't my land, I'd rather not drive a ground rod on the far end - we also have pretty rock soil and getting the rods into the ground is a bear. -Can I only have a ground rod at the near (feed) end and just leave the far end unterminated? -If I ran a longer wire, but zig zagged it how would that affect the receive ability? I figure a black length of wire laying on the ground will go basically un-noticed and be out of the way. Any thoughts? Sean Waite, WA1TE _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
