Well, I've been sucked into playing with receive only antennas. I picked up a few matching transforms and resistors to build two pennant antennas. The antennas are triangles turned on their sides and with the larger end facing the desired direction. The pointed end has a 950 ohm resistor for terminating purposes. So far, I'm reasonably happy. I have one pointed NE and one pointed west. They seem to have directivity, but I really need a little more gain, so I'll probably come up with some type of preamp for them. My 210 beverage antenna seems to work a little better on 160..but the pennants work better on 40.

I'm going to try to record my antenna work better this year. That was the main goal of starting this web page...oh well! Any how, I've been hard at work with antennas again. I took down both dipoles for 10 and 15 and replaced it with a two-band rectangle loop aimed NE/SW. I haven't had much of a chance to test them though...not many signals on 10 and 15. Also, I've added an 80M inverted V to compliment the 1/4 ground plane. I've added 160M to the ground plane too. A 203.5 mH inductor and a 10pF capacitor (about six more feet of wire past the trap) is now attached to the top of the 80M GP. It resonates at 1829 mhz and works OK, but not as well as the 160M L.