Topband: Ground return wire under a Beverage

[Mike Waters]

Hello Dave,

I have not tried that, because I heard a number of well-known Beverage
antenna experts report that it doesn't help at all. It actually hurts the
performance.

A Beverage antenna requires lossy ground under it in order for that
low-angle directional pattern to form. That is why Beverages erected over a
highly conductive salt marsh do not work well, if at all. I was told by one
of Vik's ham neighbors  (KM1H, Carl) who regularly drives by his house that
Misek himself no longer uses them.

Such an antenna can work to *some* degree because the Beverage can still
"see" the lossy earth on either side of the wire on the ground.

73, Mike
http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 3:53 PM Artek Manuals <Manuals at artekmanuals.com>
wrote:

> In reading Misek/ W1WCR Beverage Antenna Handbook. He often uses a ground
> return wire tying the ground rods together at each end ( except for  BOGs)
> with an insulated wire on top of the ground. Reading ON4UN Low Band DXing I
> did not see any Beverages with the ground return wire ! ?!
>
> So here is the question has any one done it both ways and what is the
> net affect (if any) with and without the ground return wire under the
> same Beverage.
>
> Dave
> NR1DX
>
>