{"id":96,"date":"2026-03-07T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:41:53","slug":"beverage-on-ground-bog-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Beverage on ground (BOG) testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Made 200&#8242; long beverage on ground (BOG) for receiving on 160m and 80m bands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"1332\" src=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-23-42-2951040538805688054024-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" style=\"width:578px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-23-42-2951040538805688054024-edited.jpg 999w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-23-42-2951040538805688054024-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-23-42-2951040538805688054024-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-23-42-2951040538805688054024-edited-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Feed point connected to 50 Ohm coax (no impedance transformer). Coax shield connected to ground and hot to the BOG wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" style=\"width:570px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07-17-30-17-6194057262381110886974.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>End of the BOG is ground terminated (ground rod) with a 320 Ohm resistor (white).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The antenna is oriented approximately to Bouvet Island (3Y0K). In some cases seems to give better signal to noise as compared to the transmission antenna (inverted L with 45 full length radials).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made 200&#8242; long beverage on ground (BOG) for receiving on 160m and 80m bands: Feed point connected to 50 Ohm coax (no impedance transformer). Coax shield connected to ground and hot to the BOG wire. End of the BOG is ground terminated (ground rod) with a 320 Ohm resistor (white). The antenna is oriented approximately [&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-96","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\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}