While I still enjoy any info related to beverages, at present I only
have 150 feet of space to play with. Tried a slinky type bev with
minimal results. Now am employing a pennant, which does kill alot of
pwr line noise off the back. Only in certain cases does it really pull
one out that I just cant copy on the tower/sloper. Will add a 20db bb
preamp shortly to check for any improvements.
But what really has my attention is the RX end-fire array in ON4UN's
book, where he states "They can almost match Beverage antennas!". Has
anyone tried one of these? I see where Titanex offers them for sale,
but this type of RX antenna still seems largely ignored. It is rather
complicated, possibly difficult to tune & has narrow bandwidth, but I am
desperate to find something that will really work on this lot.
73/DX, Doug / Nx4d
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