>My first beverage, I was expecting better results.
Hello, Mark and others! I agree with others that your BV is too short, but . What is your grounding system? How long a grounding rods? What kind of ground surface do you have over there? I would be separating the problems here . First one is half wave BV system should have not too sharp azimuth diagram. And the elevation angle should be pretty high Second problem can be If your BV system was having bad ground - your antenna looks like piece of wire above the ground. This wire should have more or less same reception on a both ends front and back . In this (bad) case you will loss expected gain on your main direction (45 deg) . If that is exactly your situation - I would recommend to work in getting as best performance as possible from your poor BV : - to arrange good grounding system on a both BV ends by using long (4 ft or longer) grounding rods or/and grounding radials . - to play with termination resistor value in order to adjust Front to Back ratio . ( and actuaaly get the best reception from EU direction ) This process will require a bit more time spent running around your BV , than expected But .just according my own experience two waves Beverage built somehow and not adjusted will beat perfect mounted ½ wave system This is one of the few cases , when longer definitely means better .:-)) Apologies for my cubical English . Good luck ! Alex Goldenberg VE7IRU Mailto: alex(at)minstech(dot)com <BLOCKED::mailto:[email protected]> WEB: www.minstech.com <BLOCKED::http://www.minstech.com/> _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
