Did you try all the other direction beverages you have? In the past 20 years of operating here in KH6 I find many times EU comes through over central america, not over USA, and its hard as heck to tell EU to listen that direction. Same with signals from the northwest, I hear lot of stations coming from the west instead of northwest etc. very skew path. so switching to a dipole helps, not with angle but with direction, if one had a beverage on that skew path one would find the beverage works quite well. Lot of variables and as they say you never have enough antennas for receive.
73 Merv K9FD Molokai Island Hawaii.
Interesting observations with dipoles and high angle of arrival at sunrise/sunset. But from graphs, the beverage also has a fairly high radiation angle. I am wondering whether anybody has compared beverages on 80m with RX vertical arrays or transmit 4 sq. On 80m, my Beverages are a bit better than 4 sq for DX. Ignacy NO9E _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
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