At N6RO's superstation (among other things, it was the antenna labo of
ARRL Antenna Book Editor N6BV, who lives 100 miles away in the city of
San Francisco), Ken patches lots of antennas to his operating position
for 160M contests for use as RX antennas. The reason is simple -- the
elevation, and even the horizontal direction at which signals arrive can
vary widely with time, based on propagation. Ken is a very smart
engineer, and a bunch of very smart engineers and operators are on his team.
73, Jim K9YC
On 4/3/2024 12:25 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
I just occurred to me that my description of the receive situation at
W6UE is backwards. The 160 meter flat top dipole improved the 80 meter
receive noise floor from really deaf to pretty deaf. On 160 meters we
were just really deaf whether we listened on the 160 meter dipole or the
80 meter inverted-vee
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