Many years ago I was involved -- peripherally -- with very large phased arrays
of Beverage antennas installed over very poorly conducting soil (almost
solid rock) in which ground rods were completely impractical and
ineffective. The design of these arrays predated the availability of
general
Gentlemen,
I am in full agreement with the many statements that Vic Misek's design (at
least in the first edition of his book) is, uh, 'not the best', and a
ground screen (or grounded wire) under a Beverage is 'mostly' *not* a good
idea. Over 40 years ago I was going to built it, but W8JI himself
Worse than "not the best" or "not a good idea" from prior
experimentation. My two Beverages 6 feet up (10' total Z) over a 4
strand barb wire fence did not work - very poor directivity. One N-S
and one E-W. Then some NEC2 modeling showed 6db directivity over 3
strands of barb wire. However,
On 10/1/2020 5:03 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
Worse than "not the best" or "not a good idea" from prior experimentation.
And a clear indicator that whoever proposed it failed to learn how
Beverages work! It all goes back to Mr. Beverage's original patent more
than a century ago.
Beverages
