K4RO Kirk Pickering wrote: > Garry just described one my Beverage antennas. > It's the best QSO-per-dollar investment ever > made in my station. I would not be without it. > I used 185-footer that worked on 80 and 40, > and occasionally even pulled a new multiplier > out of the QRM on 160 as well. Try it. > Kirk K4RO
I have been reading these testimonials about how well short beverages work. It depends on what you mean by "work". They might be useful antennas, but whether they are functioning as beverages is another matter. At least at my QTH, a low (30 feet high) dipole is usually a better receive antenna that a vertical. A low dipole is omnidirectional as far as I can tell. A beverage that is working as a beverage will exhibit very noticeable nulls. It would be interesting to see if really short beverages exhibit these nulls. Otherwise, useful as they may be, they are acting a degenerate low dipoles, but still beat listening on the transmit antenna. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
