> The ground around here is mostly sandstone, clay, shale and
> sand. The BOG could run about 270' in a straight line but that
> doesn't seem long enough even using a pre-amp. I'd like to use
> the whole spool of 500' but I would have to "zig-zag" it to use
> up the whole spool. I could run it with one large radius
> starting towards the South and half way ending with the end of
> the wire pointing SSE. This would cover approx. 100' additional
> feet for a total of 370' max. all running on the face of a long
> hill sloping uphill. I would like to receive signals from all
> directions as I want it for DX and would like to hear all
> stations that are available. Maybe a set-up like this won't be
> much better then my TX antenna. What do you think ?
>
> Gary
Run as much as you can on the perifery of your property.
I did that, with "Dog Loop" antenna OG, originally intended as a invisible dog
RF fence, but by the time I got it down, dog was smart and did not need it. So
i put 600:50 ohm transformer on the ends of the loop (about 600 ft in rectangle
config.) and it works well, great S/N, extra amplifier helps.
73 Yuri, K3BU
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