Bushcraftgregg wrote:

On Sep 6, 4:58 am, 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.


Yeah, I remembered after I posted that they
were wires. I remember the pics, I'd like to have
that setup going north, but the topography won't
allow it.

I can go east to west and to south with no problem.
I'm sure you know that I use the AD sloper and like
Dave and Drifter said it is a very good antenna,
extremely quiet.

You don't even have to get it very high, but because
of my lack of a north setup, I put mine up extremely
high. Once I did that I noticed the difference on my
signals to the north, a bonus add - on for that antenna is that it's a
great on the BCB also.

I wasn't sure about getting the longer AD sloper that covers MW but was more
interested in the slightly shorter one. I think I might be able to fit the longer one
into my scheme, but I'll have to measure.

Plans here would be to mount it 25-29 feet high.

Hopefully it would help me with South America, a continent that I've long neglected,
but still with a relative wealth of stations.

Would like to have my lot here much wider as I've used up to 1000' feet to South
America on DXpeditions years ago, but I'm limited to 85' N-S and 462' W-E.

The one thing about long lengths of wire is the amount of 'presence' it lends to a
signal. Hard to describe, but once one hears it, one doesn't soon forget it!

dxAce
Michigan
USA