Topband: Need advice

[Juhan Põldvere]

Hej Ben,

It probably will, but neither you nor anybody else will ever 
know. If you put the new wire up and find it much worse than 
8 yrs ago, it does not mean a thing. If you then pull all 
the old wire out and the beverage excels next night, it does 
not mean a thing. If you put the new wire up and it works 
great, and if you still pick up all of the old wire and the 
ant sounds like dummy load the night after, it still does 
not mean a thing.

This last december ES5MG told our "JA" beverage at ES6Q was 
down. I used it during the night and found it was mediocre 
at best, so I went to check it out the next morning. It was 
intact!  Then Guido showed me an end of wire sticking out of 
snow (which we then had). Turned out to be our old JA 
beverage which we thought was lost 10 years ago when the 
wood was cut down. I coiled up 120m of it. We have always 
found the antenna very useful, as was the old antenna.
--
Juhan ES5QX

SM6CKU:
> Now the issue, if I put up a new wire/beverage antenna on the same poles, 
> will the old wire lying there affect the antenna?