Hi Dave,
270 foot spacing is a good choice only if you're trying to eliminate QRN from local RFI sources not propagating via the ionosphere. Otherwise 350 foot spacing is optimum for suppressing QRM/QRN arriving via the ionosphere 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Artek Manuals" <manu...@artekmanuals.com> To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020 5:33:03 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Phased staggered beverages I think the spacing is a bit wide try something more on the order of 250-270' ( goes through the middle of the house right ....8^) Dave NR1DX On 10/18/2020 11:20 AM, Kenny Silverman wrote: > My new house has 6 wooded acres in roughly a square. For EU, I was hoping to > get a pair of phased 500’ beverages spaced 350’ apart. To do that, one of the > 2 beverages will be 110’ in front of the other due to the lot-line > orientation. Regardless of the phasing I’m modeling, the side and back lobes > are not to my liking. Is the 110’ forward stagger too far? I can get a single > 600’ beverage to Eu which has a marginally worse RDF (0.35 less) than the > not-perfect-staggered-pair but is much simpler and takes up less land. > > How much RDF increase does it take to be audible? > > Regards , Kenny K2KW > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector -- Dave manu...@artekmanuals.com www.ArtekManuals.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector