DX Season!
dxAce wrote:
Bushcraftgregg wrote:
On Sep 5, 3:18 pm, dxAce wrote:
I've always figured that the North American DX Season kicks off with Labor
Day.
So now is the time to get those antenna projects up in the air for the
2009-2010 DX Season!
Steve, do you still use those beverage antennas?
I remember seeing pics of it but it's been years
ago. If so, how high off the ground are/were
they?
Still using the 70' and 200' wires, transformer matched, They are 9' off the
ground using treated 4" x 4" x 12' posts sunk 3' in the ground.
They've been up for about eight years now I think.
Contemplating putting up either some inverted vee's or an Alpha Delta sloper so
that I might get somewhat better results out of South America.
I'm going to experiment here with an Eavesdropper dipole that I have stored in the
basement. I've never been totally impressed with this antenna but think I'll put it
up as a sloper. Mounting height will be 25' sloping down to 9', with a direction of
about 150 degrees to South America.
We'll see how it plays.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
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