Topband: beverage antennas

[Mike Waters]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM, mrtman777 <mrtman777 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> I just put up a 600 ft beverage with 17 ga. fence wire after reading those
> reflector posts about beverages last month.  It cost me less than $10 for
> the
> wire, and I am absolutely amazed by the performance.  Everyone is perfectly
> right calling it a "magic antenna".  That's on 160. You should hear it on
> 40..... Wow!
>
> 73
> Trey KJ4FDV
>

You weren't kidding! I've used the Beverage mainly for listening on 160 and
below, but on 40 meters, WOW! Thanks for lighting a fire under me. I just
built a 40 meter ground plane I designed in EZNEC. I'm using that to
transmit and the Beverages for receiving.

I figured that I would run into more difficulties because of the much
narrower beamwidth on 40, but not so.

73 Mike
www.w0btu.com