On 2013-08-05, at 10:45 AM, Bob Cutter wrote:
> I have an excellent copy of this 1977 classic by Victor A. Misek, W1WCR.
>
> $25.00 shipped in the US. Contact me off list.
>
Hi Bob,
It's a very good book, bar none, but Vic's insistence upon running a
ground-mounted parallel ground wire beneath the Beverage antenna itself runs
counter to the theory that a poorly conducting soil at he base of the antenna
is the very key to the design's success (hence the reportedly poor performance
of Beverages erected at the sea shore).
The parallel ground wire would effectively negate the resistance of the earth
below the Beverage, in Vic's designs...
I'm surprised that more Hams haven't made this same observation. I believe it
was Tom (W8JI) who first noted this to me several years ago, and it made sense
at the time...indeed, still does, to-day.
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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