DX Season!
 

On Sep 22, 2:09*am, dxAce wrote:
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

Double "V" Dipole Antenna
Vertical {inverted} "V" {dual sloper}
Horizontal "V" with the Legs set at 60*
{180*LE & 120*RE} for 150* versus a flat
[180*] Sided "V" {240*LE & 60*RE}
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