Same here. I've been very satisfied with my FCP both on 160 and on 80m
antennas. My problem is quite high noise floor and a lack of space for
special rx antennas - not being heard by others with good rx antennas.
73, Tuomas OH5JJL
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:00 PM Richard McLachlan <richard@rodsley.net>
wrote:
> After trying buried radials, surface radials and elevated radials with my
> inverted L, I finally put up an FCP a few days ago. The difference is
> amazing and I reckon my signal into NA has gone up by 4-6 dB. As I only
> have a fairly small tree available the vertical section of the antenna only
> goes up to around 45 feet. The FCP is about 4 feet above ground at the
> moment so I will raise it a bit more as I think 8ft is the recommended
> height.
>
> Richard
> G3OQT
>
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