On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM, mrtman777 <mrtman777@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> I just put up a 600 ft beverage with 17 ga. fence wire after reading those
> reflector posts about beverages last month. It cost me less than $10 for
> the
> wire, and I am absolutely amazed by the performance. Everyone is perfectly
> right calling it a "magic antenna". That's on 160. You should hear it on
> 40..... Wow!
>
> 73
> Trey KJ4FDV
>
You weren't kidding! I've used the Beverage mainly for listening on 160 and
below, but on 40 meters, WOW! Thanks for lighting a fire under me. I just
built a 40 meter ground plane I designed in EZNEC. I'm using that to
transmit and the Beverages for receiving.
I figured that I would run into more difficulties because of the much
narrower beamwidth on 40, but not so.
73 Mike
www.w0btu.com
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