I have the 1500' Eastern beverage running at about 75 degrees and it is terminated at the end with several ground rods and 3 new copper pipes. Generally one would not feel a termination would be needed, as there is nothing to the West I need to null. But in terminating the wire, I do find my side lobes on some frequencies to be less. Using the 1500' beverage at 75 degrees, the main signal line would probably be 20 degrees off on each side I would guess. On paper that sound great, but in reality that is never the case as I still get stuff from 50 degrees off, and maybe more on some channels. Of course it is by frequency. I may get a beautiful lode on one shannel, but the next one over, isn't so great. Then I would think terminating it would get rid of side lobes (on some frequencies) from the SW/NW, so it may knock out some domestics. Any thoughts on that? Later on, I may try a 500 ohm resistor at the far end once again instead of terminating the wire directly to the copper pipes, but the last time I tried that was many years back and grounding it directly to the ground rods, it worked better. But since then, I have had to raise the first 1/3 of the antenna 12-15 feet high too. So that way affect it too.
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