Hi Mike,
Beverages, four squares and 8-circle arrays are all excellent receiving antennas. Based on much on the air experience, my W8JI passive 8-circle BSEF arrays have much narrower beam width than my 580 foot Beverages and especially compared to the broad beam width my full size transmitting 4-square. M y 8-circle arrays also have very low side lobe levels. The 8-circle has a high RDF value because of its narrow beam width and low side lobe levels. Every year we make many QSOs using the 8-circle array that could not have been made with any of my other receiving antennas; however probably 99% of my QSOs could have been easily made with either a Beverage or the 4-square. It just depends on how important that one percent is to you. You can never have too many antennas... 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Waters" <mikew...@gmail.com> To: "Bill Hider" <n...@erols.com> Cc: "topband" <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 2:56:07 PM Subject: Re: Topband: 4SQ vs. 8 circle rcv According to what I read there, there is little difference between the two. That seems odd. Was some information left out, or did I read the wrong .pptx file? 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Bill Hider <n...@erols.com> wrote: > This presentation is titled: "Receiving Antennas" ... : > > http://www.contestuniversity.com/main/page_files.html > > This presentation answers all of your stated questions and more. > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband