Topband: close to earth Beverage

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Hello Don,

Thank you for your user input of  a very low Beverage. What inspired me to 
build one was a spot from someone that had one up one inch above the ground. 
My close to ground Beverage is over uneven ground.  About 1 to 1.5 feet in 
the center and sloping to the Earh at each end.  At the time I first tried 
it,  there was very high static crashes that can come with a solar 
disturbances. There was a disturbance at the time of trial. Tuning the band 
and trying different antennas, I found and worked Europeans. On my phased 
Verticals, they were barely detectable. On my normal  North-East 10 foot 
high Beverage they were Q3.. On the very low Beverage to the North-East they 
were Q-5 very easy copy. The QRN static crashes went  way down. Worked RA6AX 
589 and SV3RF 579.
I am thinking possibly the QRN rejection was from stuff coming nearly 
straight down.

At the time of the test described, the signal levels from the two Beverages 
were about the same.  A week after the event the high Beverage has more 
recovered signal level as one would expect..

Have you had actual experience hearing DX on the very low Beverages during 
the Solar QRN as I described?

Also have you noticed an increase of  front to back as you went up in 
frequency to 10 meters?

(I am looking for first hand information input from actual , very low 
Beverage antenna, users.)

73
Bruce






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D Andersen" <w7dddd at msn.com>
To: <Topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:33 PM
Subject: Topband: close to earth Beverage


>I have several very low Beverage antennas and what I find is that the 
>enhanced performance seems to be caused by the low Beverage's inability to 
>hear local man made noise very well.  When I use the normal height 
>Beverages I hear more power line, electric fence and computer noise from 
>around here. They both seem to do well with sky wave signals but the low 
>antennas receive signals poorly that are generated on earth. (extreme low 
>angles like 1 degree)
>
> 73's
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