Chuck: On 160 a Beverage muist be at least 100 ft (strict minimum) from a bigg transmit antenna. Otherwisethe RF from the TX antenna couples into the Beverage. You can of course tune it out by usingh
John, that has not been my experience. My JA Beverage is currently less than 50 ft from my 180 ft shunt fed tower with no noticeable difference in noise compared to other Beverages. In Colorado, I al
ON4UN Back in 1985 Rick, K5UR gave a talk on his setup which included seven Beverages criscrossing each other and running very near his tower. He found no noise from their near proximity to his tower
Another set of experiences: My 323 degree (one meter high) Beverage runs between my EU reflector and my 160 meter driven element. It has a low noise level and excellent directivity. My 352 degree Bev
Hi John, Well, I only had the problem when there was static charging. When I convert the antenna to a 1/4 wave sloper on the same tower, there is no coupling. By the way, the nearest point on the bev
I was planning to include an explanation about concerns of others regarding this (but forgot until it was too late). I'm located in Nebraska farm country. A high per centage of my neighbors have devi