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HF Beacon monitoring station at PA5MW Reception of the NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Project beacons. Location: Boxtel, The Netherlands. JO21QO Latitude: N 051 35', Longitude: E 005 21'. Receiver: Elecraft K2, crystal filter adjusted to BW=1300 Hz, Tone=750Hz, AGC Off, Creative E-MU 0202 Audio Interface. Antenna:  Home made, wideband 14-29Mhz horizontal corner dipole. Using 2x7m legs connected via a 16:1 transformer @5m AGL + 13m H155 coax into shack. Please find below picture. PC: MAC Mini +SSD+Win XP, low energy consumption (13W). Other Beacon Monitoring stations can be found at: International Beacon Project Monitors ***Antenna to be changed to an active vertical soon***

Source: IARU/NCDXF International Beacon Project  

 14-29MHz Multi-band Antenna (Aug 2018)

  Horizontal corner dipole; length 2x 7m, height: 5m AGL. Connection: 16:1 transformer + 13m H155 into shack.Over some 15 years there have been 11 versions of the ' ideal 14-28MHz antenna'. Varying from single wire-verticals/rigid alu verticals to several better performing multi-vertical-wire GP's. But during the last 5 years local man-made nose became a more dominant factor and I had to start experimenting again.A very low NVIS like corner dipole, used for high-angleRX on 80/160 was raised from 1m80 to 5m AGL to make it work as a DX antenna on 14-28 too. Via a triplexerfilter it is now fed into several RX systems, one of it being this FAROS IARU/NCDXF HF Beacon Monitoring system.