I'm planning to build and deploy 4 receiving antennasfor 160M this
summer - some mix of BOGs, K9AYs, etc.Question is, where would you aim
them, from a QTH 60 miles NW of Washington DC. My main objective is to
finish my 160M DXCC, now hovering at 72 worked. The quantitative
constraint is due to
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Subject: Topband: Which 4 directions?
I'm planning to build and deploy 4 receiving antennasfor 160M this
summer - some mix of BOGs, K9AYs, etc.Question is, where would you aim
them, from a QTH 60 miles NW of Washington DC. My main objective is to
finish my 160M DXCC, now hov
foot sides, or even smaller.
73
Frank
W3LPL
- Original Message -
From: "Pete Smith N4ZR"
To: "topband reflector"
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 4:51:55 PM
Subject: Topband: Which 4 directions?
I'm planning to build and deploy 4 receiving antennasfor 160
On Tue,4/7/2015 9:51 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
I'm planning to build and deploy 4 receiving antennasfor 160M this
summer - some mix of BOGs, K9AYs, etc.Question is, where would you aim
them, from a QTH 60 miles NW of Washington DC.
I would look at your 160M DXCC list, see what you've worked a
Pete,
It helps to know the 3 dB beamwidth of your antennas. Since mine (580'
2-wire Beverages) are about 90 degrees, I chose NE, SE, SW, and NW. I think
your headings will be similar. Check out:
www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html#Misc_Beverage_antenna_notes and
www.w0btu.com/links.html#Azimuthal
On Tue,4/7/2015 12:07 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
DX Atlas is invaluable for calculating this.
Yes.
73, Jim K9YC
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Frank wrote:
>>> A 160 meter receiving 4-square can be built with verticals as short as 20
>>> feet and can be built with 80 foot sides, or even smaller.
Azimuth and elevation patterns for a few typical arrays can be found in the
last section on this page:
http://ac6la.com/aecollection6.html
A
Here's a list of about 10 small RX antennas, with links to information on
each type.
If anyone has patterns for those, that would be interesting.
www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html#If_theres_no_room_for_a_Beverage
Thanks for sharing that link, Dan. If we ever get caught up here with
paying work,
Mike Waters wrote:
>>> If anyone has patterns for those, that would be interesting.
I haven't yet written a typical AC6LA "more words than any human should be
forced to read at one time" example, but this post to the Shared Apex Loop
Array Yahoo group shows some pattern comparisons:
https://gro
