Much has been said about no need to elevate receive only antennas. I live
in a subdivision of huge trees and aerial power & CATV lines. My roof also
has metal flashing around its perimeter.
So when I constructed a 160-80M pennant antenna with the vertical end only
6ft above the ground, I was very disappointed with its reception. I have
now elevated the pennant so that the vertical end is 15 ft above ground and
it made a big difference. The terminating resistor was left at 840 ohms,
but from advice I have read, it should probably be lower, for greater
height.
I used a Gap Titan DX antenna center section for the vertical portion of the
pennant, and it works fine.
73/dx, Doug/Nx4d
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