Re: [IRCA] Antennas for receiving...

["CHRIS KNIGHT" <cgknight63@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Gil & KAZ for the information! Basically, any of the cardioid 
antennas (flag, pennant, KAZ, Ewe) perform about the same, but the Ewe 
eliminates the "trip" wire is what I'm understanding. The BoG system is 
absolutely ingenius! Unfotunately, there's no room for it at this QTH. The 
BoG would act like a Beverage in a way, as a wave antenna, so wire spacing 
would not be so much of an issue. The gain of a BoG would be far greater 
than any of the cardioid-type antennas. Being on the ground, the noise 
pickup should be reduced. This really is the best scenario other than 
Beverage antennas.

I'm currently using a flag antenna pointed roughly NW/SE with the feedbox on 
the NW side and variable termination (0 to 2k ohms) on the SE side. What if 
I installed a Ewe antenna in parallel 35 feet away from the flag, but with 
the termination and feedbox switched so that the cardioid pickup was the 
reverse of the flag? The coax from each antenna would go to the Quantum 
Phaser. How well would that work? I know Mark Connelly experimented with 
antennas spaced 50 meters apart that had the same pickup patterns. In that 
case phasing worked due to the antenna spacing. However, if they are much 
closer together than 50 meters, but opposite patterns would that be OK?

73. Chris

Chris Knight
Fort Lupton, Colorado


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