[Premium-Rx] Broad Bandwidth HF RX Antenna

[Gary Mitchelson - N3JPU]

The B&W BBFD is a good choice. I use one for MARS and SHARES and have had
very good results on TX as well as RX. It's not as good as a resonant dipole
at a chosen freq but as soon as you tune off the dipole resonance the B&W
performs much better. I also use it on our voice nets and have no problem
being heard when I am the NCS and cover the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and
out to MI.

I like it for ALE and for scanning BBS as you don't need to run an antenna
tuner which for the most part are to slow to tune.

Gary Mitchelson
USAF MARS and SHARES station AFA1PU
Maryland/DC USAF MARS SMD AFF1MD
USAF MARS Region 1 MTS AFF1M
SHARES ALE Callsign AFA1PUMARS
Phone com:(443)479-0361 | DSN 689-0361

-----Original Message-----
From: premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org
[mailto:premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org] On Behalf Of Mark Donaldson
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:22
To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Broad Bandwidth HF RX Antenna


I am looking for ideas on a wide bandwidth HF RX antenna for use with my
premium receivers. Presently I have a 120ft dipole fed with openwire line
about 80ft in elevation being fed with an antenna tuner. The present antenna
is fine for my ham radio transmitting requirements but is not adequate for
band cruising, I don't want to have to be readjusting the antenna tuner all
the time. I don't have a very big lot but do border on a large amount of
conservation land. Rhombics, discones and other huge antennas are out of the
question but Beverage and othe long wire antennas are possible. I have been
also looking into the T2FD antenna and terminated transmission line antennas
as well. I would like to find an antenna that presents a reasonably
nonreactive 50 Ohm load from 2 - 30 MHz, is reasonably efficient and has a
broad antenna pattern, using a balun to do impedance transformations is not
a problem for me either. I would be interested to hear your ideas and what
some of you are using. 
 
73s
 
Mark  WA1QHQ