Topband: Need to know more about beverages...

[K4SAV]

KA1J wrote:
> ....
> Beverage 1 runs from the house to the east and is 500' long. The wire 
> comes in through the window sill and is held up by branches & it 
> dips,. It has no termination resistor. The matching transformer is 
> next to the window. The ground is connected to the station ground 
> rod....
>
> .....I surely must be doing something wrong.
>   

I wouldn't expect much performance from a Beverage built like that.  A 
bi-directional Beverage will have a lot more noise than an single 
direction one, and connecting the ground to the station ground will 
allow all the station ground noise to appear in the signal.  It could 
also destroy the pattern because of the signal picked up on the house 
wiring, which also gets into the output. 

Build it like everyone else does, separate ground rods at both ends not 
connected to anything else, add termination resistor, use transformer 
with good primary to secondary isolation or lots of chokes on the feedline.

Jerry, K4SAV