Hello All I have been looking at what options I have for low band receiving antennas. I have been studying ON4UN's book Low-Band Dxing particularly the chapter on Beverages. In the chart on pg 7-9 th
Rick, Go to my website and look at my "Beverages" link in the System Design table. In addition to what you see there, last Fall, before CQWW,I added a 225 ft Beverage heading = 160 DEG for Caribbean
e only o rt directional I would be covering Since a short beverage hasn't so much directivity, the first good option to take advantages is not to make it bidirectional. The pattern improvement lengt
Hi Rick, Cone of silence lengths have little advantage for receiving S/N over other lengths, unless you happen to have noise that is concentrated in the null area. Odds are you will never know the di
Here are my observations on Beverages - Short Beverages (300 to 400 ft) 'can' be useful. I have a 250 ft Beverage due east which I use primarily on 40M for Africa, BUT, at times it surprises me how w
Dick, You might consider making each antenna reversible using 2-wire construction a la W8JI. I have four of these in operation and two more under construction. They show excellent performance. I reco
I use my phased 800 foot long Beverages (three wide with 350 foot spacing) all the way up to 40 meters and higher. The reason they work when they are so long is the far ends don't carry any current