Another factor may be the ground the beverage runs over. Beverages perform well over poor ground but poorly over good ground such as a saltmarsh.
Good luck Gary 73 to all Geoff G3UCK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Olinger K2AV" <[email protected]> Using a house ground for a signal ground on a beverage will IMPOSE house noise on the beverage, rendering it useless and apparently without pattern. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It's my understanding the Beverage is supposed to be a quiet antenna > but as mine are not, perhaps there's an obvious reason why mine > behave so badly? #1 is in a salt marsh with nothing around it and #2 > runs along the marsh and terminates just before railroad tracks. > > I surely must be doing something wrong. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
