2020-08-14, 10:21:13
(2020-08-11, 12:40:21)VA3TS Tom Wrote: http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/?fbclid=IwAR19Q...zodq7a9tH4
Before I cancelled my Facebook account I belonged to a FB group that discussed the LoG. Recently, when I was camping up at Grundy Lake (80km south of Sudbury on Highway 69), I checked in to the GBARC 80m net. My receive signals were noisy so I was surprised when I was told my transmit signal was copyable. My antenna was an End Fed Half Wave (coil shortened version - as posted elsewhere on this forum) set up as an inverted-V with the apex up 30ft.
One consideration is that I'll need separate Rx and Tx antennas and manually switching between them is not practical. For me, the simplest solution to that is to use a separate radio for Rx. My very old, steam-powered, Yaesu FT-817 should do the job. I bought it when they first came out in 2001. It is not the -ND version and is not very useful for CW, my favourite mode, so it has been gathering dust in the shack for quite a while. I will use my FT-891 and the EFHW wire for Tx. It will be interesting to compare the noise floor between the two antenna/radio setups.
John VA3KOT