[Elecraft] OT: Receive noise / ground - NO NOISE

[David Gilbert]

Pretty much yes.  It would essentially be an unterminated 
beverage-on-ground (BOG), which is bidirectional. They work surprisingly 
well, and you don't need 5,000 feet of wire to do it. In the past I've 
laid out 500 feet and had surprisingly good results, although generally 
speaking something closer to 750 is considered good for 160m.  The gain 
might be a bit less than an elevated (i.e., 6 to 8 feet above ground) 
beverage and the characteristic impedance will be a bit less (closer to 
300 ohms than 500 if you decide to terminate the far end to ground to 
make it unidirectional), but a BOG is hard to beat for a simple receive 
antenna.  Aside from the possible benefits of polarization, 
directionality is what makes a good receive antenna and a BOG has that.

73,
Dave   AB7E


On 1/3/2013 10:27 AM, Eugene Balinski wrote:
> Modified Beverage antenna ?

>
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:37:57 +0000
>   Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The golf course that's adjoins my property lies between
>> me and Japan.
>>
>> Several years ago, in preparation for a 160M contest, I
>> took one end of
>> a 5,000 foot spool of #22 telephone frame wire and tied
>> it to a post in the
>> yard.  I then walked across the snow in the direction of
>> Japan until I came
>> to the end of the spool, leaving 5000 feet of wire behind
>> me in a straight
>> line atop the snow.  Worked well as a receiving antenna,
>> but I -did- reel
>> it in during the day to avoid the snowmobiles. (:-)
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> Ken Kopp - K0PP
>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Charles Cupp
>> <w6cup at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>