Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

2018-03-07 Thread Roger Kennedy
Well signals from Russia seem back up to normal strength this evening . . . for the first time in over a week So I'm hoping propagation to NA will have improved too! I'll be on from around 2330Z . . . hope we get some activity to find out ! Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archive

Re: Topband: Excessive noise on beverages

2018-03-07 Thread Herbert Schoenbohm
Wes, Only a guess.. If the feed line going to the inverted Vee was shorted at the shack end and the feedline was a halfwave long, that RF short would appear at or near the top of inverted Vee. Through mutual coupling from the tower to the inverted Vee could provide some additional top loading