Frank - Good stuff and very glad you made public your work on the array. It is good to see the array is working very well at W3LPL. I continue to have excellent performance from both of my BSEF arrays (160 & 80 meter versions).
Robye (W1MK) and I had several conversations following publication of my work on BSEF's which resulted in use of Magic Tee's and a few other feed point mods. 73 Joel W5ZN On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM, <donov...@starpower.net> wrote: > My new 160 meter Broad Side - End Fire (BSEF) receiving array is now in > use and performing extremely well, significantly better than my 900 foot > Beverages and full size 4-square transmitting antenna. > > Like most of us who live in developed areas, my RFI environment has > significantly degraded with the lack of effective RFI regulation in recent > years. Plasma TVs, ubiquitous poorly filtered switching power supplies and > increasly popular high efficiency motors are steadily raising our noise > floor. With this new antenna 160 meters is delightfully quiet again at > W3LPL! > > Thanks to W8JI, W5ZN, N4HY and W1MK for their efforts in designing, > optimizing and publishing the details of this wonderful high performance > receiving antenna. The BSEF array is now connected to the 160 meter input > to my CW Skimmer, it now has significantly better sensitivity than when it > was connected to my 900 foot NE Beverage. > > The description and photos of my new BSEF array are here: > > http://pvrc.org/bsef/bsef.html > > 73 > Frank > W3LPL > _________________ > Topband Reflector > -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _________________ Topband Reflector