On Sep 23, 11:41 am, (Rick) wrote:
I was reading in ON4UNs book, a section about Beverage antennas and decided to
do some checking on mine, which is celebrating its ten year anniversary this
month.

I've been thinking about putting one or two of those up this winter.
I do a lot of BC band listening along with 160m, so should be
interesting. Trying to decide what directions I want to go though..
I think Europe is probably one direction I'll go for sure, but can't
decide about the west.. I'm kind of leaning placing one basically
towards Asia, but haven't really decided yet..
I've never used them before, so it will be something new to
play with.
I'm also kicking around the idea of a new small loop to use up
there that will be quite large. I want it rotatable just like the
ones I use here at home. Will use heavy PVC I imagine.
My largest small loop here so far is a diamond 44 inches a side.
It's indoors next to me on a rotating stand. Stands almost
8 ft tall on the stand, and almost touches the ceiling.
Uses 5 turns.. Tunes 500kc-2300kc using various variable cap
configs.. Longwave if I tack on extra fixed caps.
I'm thinking about an even bigger one to use outdoors.
Maybe double the size of the present one, or even bigger.
I will use it for BC band more than anything, but will probably
rig it to cover 160m at the top of it's range if possible.
I like the loops when daytime BC listening. Very deep nulls.
Some mention using a shielded loop to aid balance, but
I've never needed to here. My conventional solenoid loops
can make a fairly strong unwanted station or noise totally
vanish in most cases in the daytime, when most is received
via ground wave. I want to try the beverages to see if I can
do a bit better at night when the skywave kicks in.
Also maybe be able to hear a bit of weak DX on 160m for
a change.
MK