Bill, The HiZ antenna will greatly improve your hearing, especially with the weak ones.
For a decent DX Tx antenna, I'd suggest an Inverted L. Make it as tall as possible with atleast 24 quarter wave radials. I'd use a minimum of 48, 135ft radials. Of course you can try 4 elevated radials. I was one of the few in the west that worked them last night. I have a Hi-Z 4 sq and a 72ft irrigation pipe vertical with 4 top hat wires and a tapped inductor at the base. I also have near 100 radials at the base. We have very poor soil here so ground losses are quite high without a good radial system. Good luck and have fun... Ray, N6VR/W7YA Near Prescott. Az On Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 7:24 AM Carl Braun <carl.br...@cattron.com> wrote: > S9OK was light with me last night here in northern WI but I could copy. > Listened to the pile up...up...up....with lots of east coasters calling > from NA but hearing VERY few stations west of me. > > I was listening on an 80m vertical so less than ideal RX antenna. > > 73, > > Carl W9LF > > -----Original Message----- > From: Topband <topband-bounces+carl.braun=cattron....@contesting.com> On > Behalf Of Bill Weaver > Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 8:33 AM > Cc: topband reflector <topband@contesting.com> > Subject: Re: Topband: S9OK 160m EU > > CAUTION: This email originated outside of the organization. This message > might not be safe, use caution in opening it. If in doubt, do not open the > attachment nor links in the message. > > Andy, > You were a fairly solid 529 into Central KY on my GAP vertical (Poor RX > antenna). I gave you a few calls with no luck (apparently a bad TX antenna > also :)). S9OK was just under the noise level. Work begins this weekend on > a HI-Z 4-square :). > > 73, > Bill WE5P > > Comfortably Numb > > > On Oct 6, 2021, at 00:03, Andree DL8LAS via Topband < > topband@contesting.com> wrote: > > > > Hey topbanders, nice signal from S9OK this morning in DL. Worked also > first west coast this season. N7UA was real 559 today. Here is a short clip > from S9OK. > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fv-O-PGtM9oA&data=04%7C01%7CCarl.Braun%40cattron.com%7C51cb4ebad3d34e18bafa08d988ce0973%7Ce3db7da86f894250a548d36f358a7d2a%7C0%7C0%7C637691242305371802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2BDwinG0fiZ9cjcdxJLQZg%2Fjz9nzNZ2Ua7sSNdozhVtQ%3D&reserved=0 > > 73 Andy DL8LAS > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dl8las.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7CCarl.Braun%40cattron.com%7C51cb4ebad3d34e18bafa08d988ce0973%7Ce3db7da86f894250a548d36f358a7d2a%7C0%7C0%7C637691242305371802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=iLU4eZmGl4iC8QbGyTBMi9eWeWizEAk%2FLc8H81MZ4CE%3D&reserved=0 > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.contesting.com%2F_topband&data=04%7C01%7CCarl.Braun%40cattron.com%7C51cb4ebad3d34e18bafa08d988ce0973%7Ce3db7da86f894250a548d36f358a7d2a%7C0%7C0%7C637691242305371802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=kYISuuelbeeG1lkKTpuXlJ6t8F1L8UZNNrJ27J7Yur8%3D&reserved=0 > - Topband Reflector > _________________ > Searchable Archives: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.contesting.com%2F_topband&data=04%7C01%7CCarl.Braun%40cattron.com%7C51cb4ebad3d34e18bafa08d988ce0973%7Ce3db7da86f894250a548d36f358a7d2a%7C0%7C0%7C637691242305381753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=C6Y5xlK%2BMOdnH4EUm1MnadxxOut%2F06ZS4PPrqh%2BLWp4%3D&reserved=0 > - Topband Reflector > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector