Hi topbanders, We took some days to think about our setup and reading your suggestions and links. THANK YOU. I will start with some considerations, trying to answer your questions and better explain
Thie Beverage discussion is quite illuminating. It seems then that the Beverage works well over a wide range of ground types but does not work (as a Beverage) over very good ground or very poor groun
Of course it doesn't Milt. That's because the Beverage doesn't work like an "open wire line with ground". It works because the poor conductivity earth below the Beverage allows an electric field to
-- Yuri and others. While the ground plane I construct to restore Beverage behavior over the arroyos has performed as described, I am also convinced that the antenna does NOT obtain much "gain" in i
Beverage Wire Height: For decades now I have read numerous accounts of Beverage performance attributed to wire gauge, conductor material, insulation, ground type, height above ground, on ground, whet
All, When I took a graduate course in antennas, we studied the Beverage. The lossy ground is what makes it work by tilting the electric field vector between the wire and ground. That creates an E-fie
Hello, A good test to see the interaction in play is to use EZNEC. Model a Beverage antenna and a 1/4 wave parasitic self resonate vertical near it. Move the vertical all around the Beverage in the m
Thanks, Bill, to you and all the others for such quick replies. I guess my description wasn't very clear, though, because the 40 degree gradient I described slopes downward toward the northeast, not
Dear Fellow TopBander, I am seeking advice on 160 meter Beverage placement and do not recall these questions in recent archives as being disposed of. Please let me know what your experience on this h
There has been a lot of discussion and little agreement on this specific topic by numerous "experts". W1WCR advocates a ground wire under the HF Beverage, based exactly on what you said. Others say