[TowerTalk] Beverages near the seawater ???

Herbert Schoenbohm herbert.schoenbohm at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 23:15:22 EDT 2017


As long as your Beverages are placed inland from the sea you should be 
OK.  I have several Beverages that run south and terminate about 35 feet 
from the waters edge and they work very well.  It all depends on the 
type of earth underneath the run.


Herb, KV4FZ


On 3/19/2017 8:51 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> Some antennas such as a Pennant are not ground dependant. However a Beverage
> is so easy to build, why don't you try one?
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> To:	"Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:	[TowerTalk] Beverages near the seawater ???
> From:	"Douglas Ruz / CO8DM" <co8dm at frcuba.cu>
> Date:	Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:29:45 -0400
>
> Hi,
>
> We want to improve the RX on low bands in our contest station.
>
> Our contest QTH is near the sea...just few feets from the ocean.
>
> We think about the beverages but I have been reading that beverages near the
>
> sea don't work very well.
>
> Maybe other RX antennas work better near the seawater.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug, CO8DM
>
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