Topband: Beverage termination

[Milt Jensen]

N4GG:
>> I think there is an alternate viewpoint that it doesn't matter much, or
>> maybe not at all, on 160M, where the vertical wire at around 9 feet of
>> height does not introduce enough signal into the antenna to matter.

Hal.

Just try putting a 6" long piece of wire in the RF jack of your receiver and
listen to what your receiver "hears".  I think you will be convinced that
you want to eliminate any semblance of "antenna" other than the long,
horizontal Beverage wire itself.  MHO, de

Milt, N5IA


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