Nobody seems to talk about the wave angle of the beverage
main lobe, at least I haven´t seen anything.
Seems to me that anything much shorther then 4 wl doesn´t
work. If you check Misek's book you can see that you need
about 4 wl for 25-30 deg waveangle and anything higher than
that is useless.
In any case I have tried many many beverages and for me they
don´t perform untill they reach 1000 ft approx, all this work was
done on 80 meters, figure same would apply on 160.
73, Jim SM2EKM
PS: This 2wl stuff below I don´t understand. IMHO the waveangle
is the far too high to receive the DX. Sure the wire will RX a lot
of signals but I´m looking for DX and where I´m at in the aurora
zone the lower angle I can produce the better. Any more idéas?
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