Gentlemen, I am in full agreement with the many statements that Vic Misek's design (at least in the first edition of his book) is, uh, 'not the best', and a ground screen (or grounded wire) under a B
Worse than "not the best" or "not a good idea" from prior experimentation. My two Beverages 6 feet up (10' total Z) over a 4 strand barb wire fence did not work - very poor directivity. One N-S and o
And a clear indicator that whoever proposed it failed to learn how Beverages work! It all goes back to Mr. Beverage's original patent more than a century ago. Beverages DEPEND on lossy earth beneath
Many years ago I was involved -- peripherally -- with very large phased arrays of Beverage antennas installed over very poorly conducting soil (almost solid rock) in which ground rods were completely
Frank, That is one of the best e mails about beverages I have seen!! Thanks. I have been toying with making a long Europe beverage along my rocky ridgeline. It is solid rock with no way to apply a c
The engineer who lead development, testing and evaluation of the array explained that the ground mats served two purposes: - almost completely suppressed signals received by the sloping ends of the B
Hi Rick, I'm not aware that any details of this phased array Beverage design were ever published. M ost likely it was documented only in internal government engineering reports. These very large phas