Same here. I've been very satisfied with my FCP both on 160 and on 80m antennas. My problem is quite high noise floor and a lack of space for special rx antennas - not being heard by others with good rx antennas.
73, Tuomas OH5JJL On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:00 PM Richard McLachlan <[email protected]> wrote: > After trying buried radials, surface radials and elevated radials with my > inverted L, I finally put up an FCP a few days ago. The difference is > amazing and I reckon my signal into NA has gone up by 4-6 dB. As I only > have a fairly small tree available the vertical section of the antenna only > goes up to around 45 feet. The FCP is about 4 feet above ground at the > moment so I will raise it a bit more as I think 8ft is the recommended > height. > > Richard > G3OQT > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
