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Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna
From: "David Robbins" <k1ttt@arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:12:48 +0000
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##  so it’s a bunch of tradeoffs, depending on bands covered, length of  
beverage etc. 
I have zero experience with beverages...so don’t know if a beverage would work 
any better
than a 80m rotary dipole or not..on RX.   I cant see any beverage working 
better than a 40m yagi either.

It depends on the definition of 'better'.  No, a Beverage won't give you as 
strong a signal as a 40m Yagi, but it may give you much better copy than a Yagi 
due to better directionality and lower noise pickup.


David Robbins K1TTT
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