I concur. Have used Beverages on Ground and my favorite was a one
wavelength on 160 that anchored to a ground rod at the feed point, sloped
up to 12 feet (3 of those military fiberglass supports) then back down to a
termination at another ground rod anchor. A temporary pair of those helped
split out the East and West coasts from XA5T. The only thing I was
critical about in setting them up was to make sure that they were in a
straight line as far as azimuth went.
There are simply so many variables that add to small improvements to the
antenna but just having the RX antenna is the biggest improvement
regardless of if it is optimized or not.
Earl
N8SS
> Re: Beverage Antenna Mounted 12' Above Gorund (David Gilbert)
>
>
>
> Personally, I think being THAT rigorous isn't all that rational. Put
> your wire at 12' and use whatever input transformer and termination you
> already planned.
>
> 73,
> Dave?? AB7E
>
>
>
> As 160M super-op has often said, "any Beverage is better than no
> Beverage." His run through terrain at least as irregular as mine, and
> he's deep in a ravine!
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
>
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