{"id":193,"date":"2026-05-09T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:18:20","slug":"factors-affecting-how-bog-antennas-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Factors affecting how BOG antennas work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My half empirical points for successful BOG antenna deployment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Poor ground conductivity is good for BOGs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not rise the antenna wire too high from the ground (&lt; 2&#8243;). This includes grass and other vegitation on the ground. Rising it too high can decrease the directivity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you install radials, make sure that they are not too long. Three 40&#8242; radials per end point seems to be good for 60\/80\/160.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Length: 150&#8242; &#8211; 300&#8242; has been often used. I tried 150&#8242;, 200&#8242; and 300&#8242;. 300&#8242; worked best in my case. It has good pattern on 160 m, 80 m, and 60 m. I have not tried it on 40 m since I have 3 element beam there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many stories online where some people say that BOGs work great and others that have absolutely no success with these antennas. It took me a while to test various setups but now I finally have a working system. It easily beats my inverted L in receiving on 160\/80\/60 especially when lightning is present somewhere. But I tend to use both in receiving (see other posts on &#8220;multi&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My half empirical points for successful BOG antenna deployment: There are many stories online where some people say that BOGs work great and others that have absolutely no success with these antennas. It took me a while to test various setups but now I finally have a working system. It easily beats my inverted L [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}