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Subject: Topband: beverage above water
From: df2py@t-online.de (DF2PY)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:09:03 +0100
hello reflectees !
For the last 3 weeks i am using my beverages above water.About 2/3 of the length
of my WNW,NW and NNW beverages is above water after the river flooded the 
terrain. I have been switching between TX ant and bevs many times and i cant 
see 
any degradation of performance that could be easily noticed on receive.I used 
to 
do that many times when the ground was stil dry and i am very familiar with the 
relations of signals on the TX and the RX antennas.
Ground conductivity is very good at the moment as i have about one foot of 
water 
remaining. The common concept is, that beverages above good ground are poor 
performers. From my experience i   CAN`T  give positive proof of that.And i 
have 
been observing this about twice a year in the last years, but this time i 
wanted 
to launch my observations to the reflector.
If the degradation of performance is very slight in my case,where the 
conductivity can only be beaten by saltwater, then the whole boloney about bad 
beverage performance over good grounds isn`t worth a dime. Say what ??
 73 de wolf  df2py


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