>From: w4jvn@juno.com (David J Klimaj)
To: <topband@contesting.com>
>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:40:41 EST
>
>Does anyone have experience with a beverage over swamp/marsh land or over
>a wet area where the water is 4 inches deep? (dry in Summer)
> From what I have read, a beverage over such water logged land may
>not operate as well ( or at all) when compared to a beverage over dry
>land. ( and my property is 3 ft above sea level; Chesapeake Bay)
> ANyone have any experience with such a beverage? If so, I'd
>appreciate your experience. ALL other comments are welcome, too
> See you on 160 this weekend.
> tnx Dave W4JVN
>
FWIW, I don't have any direct experience with a beverage (or any other
antenna) over very GOOD ground. However, I did quite a bit of fiddling with
beverage configurations in a NEC-2 based antenna modeling program and the
modeled beverages always prefered to be over poor ground. I don't think
these NEC-2 based models take all the losses in the antenna due to
proximate ground into account but I do think they get the ground effects on
the pattern essentially correct.
73, Eric N7CL (new call same as old call)
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