Topband: Best Height Above Ground for a Beverage RX Antenna

[Jim Brown]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:12:25 -0500, Joe Giacobello wrote:

>If I were to install Beverage antennas, the ends would wind up down in
>hollows, shielded by higher terrain on all sides.  Intuitively, I assumed
>that the performance would not be very good

I had the same concerns. Although my Beverages are not buried, both of them 
run into the side of a hill, and both cross fairly deep ravines (70 ft or so 
of down and up in lengths of 500 ft and 600 ft). I was advised to follow the 
terrain, more or less, and that's what I've done. In a few places where I 
cross a creek, I'm a bit higher above it than the 7-8 ft average overall. 
They work fairly well, most of the time out-hearing my dipole and vertical 
by 6 dB or so for fairly long paths. 

Jim K9YC