Hi All, IMHO, 150 feet of beverage for 160 is too little.
I would prefer a pennant or flag loop antenna aimed at Europe. It works! Also, being only about 30 feet in length, one can keep it on one's property. At a previous QTH I spaced two pennants 160 feet apart, broadside, toward Europe and either fed them to a magic tee in phase. Worked well, did not pick up neighbor's spurious signals from home entertainment devices, etc. Even a single pennant works well enough, as long as one has a decent preamp. George, K8GG > I've discovered that the woods off the corner of my property give me a > good > straight run where I could run a 150' or so beverage pointed directly at > EU. > > The difficulty is...it's not my property there, but a wooded area > connected > to a neighboring apple farm. It isn't being used, but it's still a little > shady to run an antenna there. > > I was thinking of getting something like this > https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/svp-sv-bog and running a wire into > the > woods. > > The difficulty is that these seem to want to be terminated at the far end, > but I've seen people talking about using them unterminated. Given this > isn't my land, I'd rather not drive a ground rod on the far end - we also > have pretty rock soil and getting the rods into the ground is a bear. > > -Can I only have a ground rod at the near (feed) end and just leave the > far > end unterminated? > -If I ran a longer wire, but zig zagged it how would that affect the > receive ability? > > I figure a black length of wire laying on the ground will go basically > un-noticed and be out of the way. Any thoughts? > > Sean Waite, WA1TE > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband