Topband: Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice

2015-01-04 Thread Lloyd Berg - N9LB
I have read and re-read the recently posted 160m RX antenna information presented on the Top Band Reflector and am sold on building a separate low band receive antenna system in my front yard that is away from my TX towers in the back yard. I am wondering if anyone is willing to give me input on m

Re: Topband: Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice

2015-01-04 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 1/4/2015 10:03 AM, Lloyd Berg - N9LB wrote: I have read and re-read the recently posted 160m RX antenna information presented on the Top Band Reflector and am sold on building a separate low band receive antenna system in my front yard that is away from my TX towers in the back yard. I am w

Re: Topband: [Bulk] Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice

2015-01-04 Thread Grant Saviers
I put my DX Eng 4 sq right at a corner of my lot. A 4' ground rod only worked ok, but in a pretty wet area most of the year, so I added three 15 foot bare #14 Cu radials for drier times. Two along the 90 deg baselines as keeping radials away from the feedline to the central switch seemed a go

Re: Topband: Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice

2015-01-04 Thread Dan Maguire via Topband
IV3PRK has several interesting papers available as links from this page http://www.iv3prk.it/TX3A-DHDL.htm including one which compares both a single DHDL and a dual DHDL with a Waller Flag. Dan, AC6LA _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband