[TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,2/2/2015 1:41 PM, Doug Turnbull wrote:
> Many of us who have built and used Beverage antennas are learning from
> this discussion so do not feel badly about asking questions.

The Beverage concept is pretty forgiving. Heights can vary, the wire can 
zig and zag, go into and out of ravines. Will a textbook ideal height 
perfectly straight Beverage work better than one that isn't so ideal? 
Probably, but it will work. At PJ4, where driving anything into the 
volcanic-like earth was not even slightly practical, the "ground" 
termination was a 25-40 ft piece of wire laying on the ground. It worked 
well enough for us to hear JA and the western US better.

NI6T said it best -- ANY Beverage is better than NO Beverage.

I've seen advice from those who claim to know that Beverages do NOT work 
well above a metal fence.

73, Jim K9YC