Hi Fred,
When I moved to upstate NY 25 years ago I put up 3 beverages ranging in length
from 300-350'. That was the max length I could fit on my property. They had
directivity and some F/B. I should add I am using these receive antennas for
160M. My 80M wire 4-sq always seemed to outperform my receive antennas,
I put up a Ewe. It's performance seemed to depend on the weather (how wet the
soil). So I put an insulated wire on the ground tying the feed point and
terminating point together and lifting the ground connections. Kind of an off
center Flag. That seemed to help. Then I put up a couple Pennants. Made them
switchable in direction. I never had a case with our soil where the beverages
were better than the Pennants so after a season I took down the beverages.
Next installed a 3-el short, non-radial W1FV vertical E/W. That has been
working quite well.
Then I put up a 220' BOG, N/S. There are occasions when any of the antennas -
BOG, W1FV or Pennant may be the best.
Pennants are NE/SW and SE/NW.
On the other side of the property I plan on putting up a E/W BOG to see how it
compares to the W1FV array.
I also installed the ground rods and ground anchors for another 3-el W1FV
array, NE/SW when I get time.
I don't have room to put up a low impedance receive array that requires
radials.
I have my receive antennas for the most part at right angles from my tower to
minimize shooting through the tower.
I do miss my 625' beverages I had in southern New Joisey.
73,
N2TK Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of fmoeves
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:29 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Rx Antenna System
Tony, I put up a short 300' Beverage pointing to EU. It works great here in KY.
It's abt 8' high. My point is give it a try might surprise you. Also kave a
K9AY loop and at times it's better. Fred KB4QZH
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<topband@contesting.com> Date: 11/22/19 10:12 AM (GMT-05:00) To: 'Paul Mcl'
<paul.mcl@gmail.com>, 'William Hill' <w3wh@comcast.net> Cc:
topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Rx Antenna System Has anyone had
experience with this system and have done a comparison toother receive
antennas? I have room to put up a BOG about 200' long at aright angle and about
100' away from my present BOG. But it would bedifficult to get the feedline to
either end of the wire. This system lookslike I can put the feed point near the
center and get selection of eitherdirection. I can run RG6 stapled to the grass
both for the feedline and forthe BOG.By the way my present BOG is sometimes
better than my Pennants and sometimesthe Pennants are better. Wish I had the
room for a beverage.N2TK, Tony -----Original Message-----From: Topband
<topband-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Paul MclSent: Friday, November
22, 2019 9:47 AMTo: Willi
am Hill <w3wh@comcast.net>Cc: topband@contesting.comSubject: Re: Topband: Rx
Antenna
SystemHere:https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/technicalarticles/ums-bevflex-4x.pdfRegardsPaul
MM0ZBHOn Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 14:26, William Hill <w3wh@comcast.net> wrote:>
Does anyone recall the vendor that sells the system that can be > configured in
several different ways such as a beverage or BOG or flag orpennant?>> Sent from
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