>My first beverage, I was expecting better results.
Hello, Mark and others!
I agree with others that your BV is too short, but ?.
What is your grounding system?
How long a grounding rods? What kind of ground surface do you have over
there?
I would be separating the problems here ?.
First one is ? half wave BV system should have not too ?sharp? azimuth
diagram.
And the elevation angle should be pretty high
Second problem can be ? If your BV system was having bad ground - your
antenna looks like piece of wire above the ground.
This wire should have more or less same reception on a both ends ?front and
back ?. In this (bad) case you will loss
expected ?gain? on your main direction (45 deg) ?.
If that is exactly your situation - I would recommend to work in getting as
best performance as possible from your ?poor? BV :
- to arrange good grounding system on a both BV ends by using long
(4 ft or longer) grounding rods or/and grounding radials .
- to ?play? with termination resistor value in order to adjust
Front to Back ratio ?. ( and actuaaly ? get the best reception from EU
direction )
This process will require a bit more time spent running around your BV ,
than expected ? But ?.just according my own experience ? two waves
Beverage built ?somehow? and not adjusted will beat perfect mounted ½ wave
system ?
This is one of the few cases , when ?longer? definitely means ?better? .:-))
Apologies for my ?cubical? English .
Good luck !
Alex Goldenberg VE7IRU
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