Posted by
Dave Van Wallaghen on
Jul 27, 2009; 2:49am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Diversity-Receiving-Antennas-tp3331122p3331682.html
Thanks for the reply Bill. I will certainly take a look at the 4-square.
And I agree about my unterminated long wire. That is how I got to this point when looking to implement a Beverage the right way. I knew I was pretty far off when I looked it up in the ARRL books ;-)
I planned on trying to construct two of them in opposite orientations, I just thought the K9AY might be ok for the in between orientations.
Thanks for the great feedback and I'll take a look at that 4-square.
73,
Dave W8FGU
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From: Bill W4ZV <
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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:24:04
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Diversity Receiving Antennas
Dave Van Wallaghen wrote:
>
> So my question to the group is, for those using diversity reception (or
> separate receive antennas), and using a K9AY - does it perform well on
> the HF bands for this purpose? I would also like any input from those
> who have both Beverages and K9AY for comparison. And, does it make sense
> to use the setup as I described? Since I can only run Beverages in a
> couple of directions, I thought the K9AY use in the other directions
> would cover a lot of bases.
>
I've never used a K9AY but I know it's S/N is several dB inferior to a
decent Beverage. There's a good comparison of RX antennas below:
http://www.w8ji.com/receiving.htm (scroll down to comparison chart)
Another comparison in in ON4UN's Low Band DX-ing (4th edition) on page 7-97.
The short answer is...the K9AY is better than nothing, occupies little space
and can be switched in 4 directions...but it's not in the same ballpark as a
good Beverage. I'm also not sure how well the K9AY works on the higher
bands, but you might want to consider a RX 4-square which can be comparable
to a good Beverage in 4 directions and which can be used up to 30 MHz. DX
Engineering and HiZ Antennas both make broadbanded RX 4-squares that work
well at HF:
http://www.dxengineering.com/Sections.asp?ID=117&DeptID=12#Tophttp://www.hizantennas.com/These systems are not cheap but should work much better than a K9AY.
BTW, it's really doubtful your Beverage is actually working correctly. Both
ends should be terminated in the characteristic impedance (~500 ohms) to
work correctly, so you need a non-inductive 470 ohm resistor on the far end
and a 9:1 matching transformer on the feed end. Transformers can be made to
work well up to at least 20m (maybe even 15m) but require some care in
construction.
This is not the place to go into a Beverage tutorial but there is a wealth
of information on W8JI's website and in ON4UN's 4th edition (or you can wait
for his 5th edition which should be out next year).
73, Bill W4ZV
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