[Premium-Rx] General Coverage Antennas for HF

[W.J. Ubbels]

Hello all,

My setup is quite similar to the one Ahmet describes, but instead of having
to buy a good (read $$$) active antenna I built one myself following this
recipe:

http://www.lwca.org/library/articles/pa0se/active/

It describes a broadband active antenna that will work from 15KHz to 30MHz,
with very good intermod performance. Following the antenna is a homebrew
multicoupler made from a minicircuits PSC4-5 power splitter, which has 4
outputs driving my receivers. If, however, you live in an area with lots of
man-made noise, loop antennas may be preferable.

Regards,

Wouter
PE4WJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmet Gundes
To: Premium-RX
Sent: 30-1-04 5:31
Subject: [Premium-Rx] General Coverage Antennas for HF

Hello again,

Personally I think the best bet for multi-receiver scheme, is to use a
good

ACTIVE Antenna with decent performance figures (such as IP3+). Also

with active antennas a High Pass Filter which would have "good" specs
for

anything below 1.6MHz is definitely a must.  I would suppress anything
below 2MHz by at least 60dB or even more.  Dressler is a company that
makes

expensive but decent Active Antennas.  Rohde-Schwarz has them for $ 1200

or more !...    Active antennas with remote controlled Attenuators will
be best.

Also I would definitely have a LOOP Antenna. They are, in my view, a
must for every purpose especially for receiving.

Regards

A. Gundes