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Re: Topband: Spam:****, Beverages near the ocean

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Subject: Re: Topband: Spam:****, Beverages near the ocean
From: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>
Reply-to: herbs@vitelcom.net
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:56:31 -0400
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On 4/21/2011 11:36 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> I was reading ON4UN's Low Band DXing Book and ran across a comment he
> made about beverages not working near the ocean and the Heard Is folks
> could never get one working.  I know we used one from V47 and it worked
> great.  It was located probably no more than 300 ft from the water.
>
> This is the first time I have read or heard of this phenomenon.  Have
> others had issues with beverages near the ocean?
Mike my QTH is very close and my Beverages (some of them) terminate 
within 500 feet of a large salt pond.  The field they are across has 
ground water down about 20 feet and it is brackish but all my
Beverages work very well.


Herb, KV4FZ
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