Topband: It is not so much propagation

[Milt -- N5IA]

Beverages do NOT make lightning caused static crashes go away.  They can 
significantly reduce the received level of the crashes from the directions 
different from the listening direction.

However, in the listening direction Beverages will actually "clear up" the 
crashes being heard from that direction.  In other words, those crashes will 
become the predominant ones you hear with the exception of those caused by 
local storms.

The crashes from the listening direction will not be as strong as they will 
be when listening on the TX antenna.

The points I am trying to make are:

1.  Beverages work VERY well.

2.  Beverages will NOT eliminate all static crashes.

3.  There is no silver bullet, but Beverages are about as close to the 
perfect solution as you can get.

4.  There is NO substitute for acreage.  I sincerely wish everyone had the 
capability of installing Beverages.  But that wish is no different than my 
wish that we all had our TX antennas at the edge of a salty ocean beach. 
So, we live with what we have.

Mis dos centavos,

de Milt, N5IA

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From: Guy Olinger K2AV
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:19 AM

Only if they have space for them.

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, K4OWR <k2owr at comcast.net> wrote:

:::: When I switch to my beverage antenna the noise pretty much goes to
almost nothing.
Don't most serious operators have one....or more???
BILL K4OWR

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On 3/19/2012 10:22 AM, N7DF wrote:

During the summer the storm static is the main obstacle to top band
operation here   40 over nine crashes every 30 seconds kind of drown out
everything, QRP or QRO