It's been very interesting to listen to all of the recent comments relative to various receive antennas, and separation of XMIT and receive antennas on top band.
I have been on top band since 1988 but I have never really had a good receive antenna on this one acre city lot. I tried just about all of them....flag, EWE, K9AY, low dipole, short beverages, etc. With the Hi-Z four square (with 80 feet on a side) I have arrived at the promised land as far as receive goes. It has an awesome front to back ratio and I can hear better than I ever dreamed!! It is over 100 feet from my shunt fed tower (100 feet) and there is very little interaction at this distance. The K-3 (with diversity receive) helps, too along with the GAP hear it module ahead of the K3. This device worked well with the Orion, too. If I had room i'd go to the 8 circle array by Hi-Z... 73, John, W4NU K4JAG (1959 to 1998) _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
