Hi Steve, The answer is "it depends" Beverage performance is ideal over poorly conducting soil and extremely poor over highly conductive soil. In extreme cases. poorly conductive soil creates a probl
The other thing I have noticed with my BEV's and BOGs is propagation mode can cause quite a bit of variability in RDF or F/B. Using other than a local station for measurement can give inconsistent an
Hi Kenny, Over the past 12 or more years I've conducted numerous comparisons of different receive antennas on the low bands. I'm fortunate to have enough land to lay all of them out with adequate spa
Randy, Im glad the system is working for you. I have 15 Beverage wires with about 2.5 miles (4km) of wire through dense old forest and will have down trees regularly after a storm. Perhaps every 2 we
Best thing I did was watch Steve's VE6WZ wonder videos on Beverage antennas. Go to YouTube search for VE6WZ.. Fred KB4QZH -- Original message --From: Randy via Topband <topband@contesting.com> Date:
...no problem Lee, actually each new idea helps. I'll give a try the n1=4T version with a 0.3mm (~AWG 28/29) wire to see if I can push a bit better matching. Sorry for the links I tried to avoid send
Sorry Guys, I miss interpreted Csabas transformer problem. My email program truncated the URLs and most of the information past that point. What I did get I misread as a result so now I am curious al
Hi Mark, Its not correct to refer to a 250 foot Beverage operating on either 80 or 40 meters as a "short Beverage." That length is ideal for 40 meters and excellent for 80 meters. Only on 160 meters
Mark, I'm no expert and relatively new to the Beverage antenna but have done lots of experimenting with them. My thoughts.... First don't give up short Beverages work just fine...you just work with w
Hi Greg, Four to six feet is not too high for a Beverage on 160 through 40 meters Beverage sensitivity improves gradually with increased height and th rear lobe and sidelobes increase (directivity de