>From what I have read a 500 foot bog is too long for 160 meters due to its >proximity to earth. If memory serves something less than 300' (like 250-270) >outperforms 500 feet or longer.
73, Bob AA6VB Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2016, at 1:58 PM, James C. Hall, MD <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Lloyd: > > Normally, I have reversible Beverages deployed but this year I decided to > purchase a shared apex loop (SAL) from Array Solutions. Unfortunately, due > to work, poor wx, and recent illness, I have been unable to deploy it. So > yesterday was a relatively warm day and the light rain had moved east - I > decided to just lay 500 feet of insulated wire (I purchased at Lowe's) > running SW and just jam the end into the Beverage connector outside (an F > connector). Inside at the station, I have an ICE preamp (also preamps in the > K3 which were unnecessary) and that was it. Nothing fancy. It works quite > well on 80M but sometimes the 4-square verticals do better. > > I was pleasantly surprised to hear K5P just booming in last night and it was > a one call deal and in the log. Hopefully I'll hear them on 80M and I can > compare better. This morning when I checked (about an hour before SR), he > was still loud and clear on 160M. > > To be clear, the BOG is just a throw it on the ground, last minute antenna > for me. I think you could use more length on your antenna. > > 73, Jamie > WB4YDL > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lloyd - N9LB [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 2:06 PM > To: 'James C. Hall, MD' > Subject: RE: Topband: K5P in Zone 14 > > Hello James! > > I see you have a 500 foot bog, I need some advice. > > I put down a 200 foot BOG for 80m & 160m. Seems to work well on 80 but > virtually no directionality on 160m. I was told that performance would drop > dramatically on both 80 and 160 if I went over 200 feet in length. > > I do have a ground rod already in the earth 300 feet beyond the starting > point of my bog, but it won't be fun relocating things, but if it would > improve 160m ( even at the cost of 80m) I'd make the effort this winter. > > Please tell me about your 500 foot BOG. > > 73 > > Lloyd - N9LB > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James C. > Hall, MD > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 12:35 PM > To: Roger D Johnson <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14 > > K5P was very loud last night and I had just thrown a 500' BOG down yesterday > afternoon. Craig K9CT was at the key. I'm in NW TN, about 30 miles East of > MS River. > > 73, Jamie > WB4YDL > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Roger D Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> According to Clublog's Leaderboard stations east of the Mississippi >> are > almost nil. >> >> 73, Roger >> >> >>>> On 1/16/2016 12:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote: >>>> On Sat,1/16/2016 9:31 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote: >>>> The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard >>>> reach on most bands and once you go away from 17 through 40 meters >>>> there are literally only about five QSOs total on the other bands. >>> >>> Now you know what life can be like in W6 with expeditions that are in >>> the back yard of EU. :) >>> >>> The island K5P is a protected wild life refuge, and access is quite > restricted, even to the extent of the size of aircraft they could land on > the island. That caused them to decide to travel light, including antennas. > Rigs are K3s with KPA500s, HF antennas are SteppIR verticals. The 160 > antenna is a Battle Creek special, and I suspect they have run some > Beverages. BTW -- that aircraft got even smaller a day or so before they > took off, causing them to trim the team by several men. >>> >>> Here in NorCal, we're only 3400 miles from them over water. Sigs are > great on 160M, not great on the HF bands. 160M is a lot louder than 80M. I > managed to work them yesterday on 10 and 12 CW, but I had to wait several > hours for them to get from "vapor" to 229 to call them (and be able to copy > my call), and they never got louder than that 229. >>> >>> I know about half the team, and I know they are dedicated to putting > unique calls in the log, and are favoring EU as much as they can when they > think there's an opening. On one of their first nights on 30M calling EU, > there were EU spots saying that 10115 had bad QRM, please go to 10116. I > emailed one of the guys, and the next day they were on a different > frequency. >>> >>> 73, Jim K9YC >>> _________________ >>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
