Wow, I had no idea that K3LR is not using Beverages! Don't verticals need to also be away from towers to keep from having their pattern skewed?
I had a small lot at my P40A station and I used a K6SE Pennant. I liked that it was ground independent. The Pennant was definitely better on RX than my transmitting vertical however stations with Beverages heard much better. John KK9A Tim Duffy k3lr wrote; Hello Lee; Great to hear from you. Yes - I have a pair of VE3DO loops - spaced 5/8 wave length - aimed at Europe (also can be switched to 225). Then a single VE3DO loop for 135/315 degrees. It is all about more choices. I have a HI-Z 8 circle and a HI-Z 4 square - also spaced 500 feet apart - broadside on Europe. There is a 5 element parasitic vertical Yagi for 160 that we use for TX and RX - that has tremendous F/B (for 15 KHz of the band). This was published in the Yagi chapter of the last three editions of the Low Band DXing book. So 3 main sets of RX antennas. Any two of these RX antenna arrays can be fed to the DX Engineering NCC-2 for antenna combining to develop incredible directive patterns. Beverages need to be away from towers and other antennas to work well. I just cannot get them far enough away on this property to work - so they are gone. The short vertical arrays work great. Twice we have worked over 100 countries in a weekend on 160 meters with this setup. I am 1 mile from Ohio J 73 Tim K3LR _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
