On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM, mrtman777 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I just put up a 600 ft beverage with 17 ga. fence wire after reading those > reflector posts about beverages last month. It cost me less than $10 for > the > wire, and I am absolutely amazed by the performance. Everyone is perfectly > right calling it a "magic antenna". That's on 160. You should hear it on > 40..... Wow! > > 73 > Trey KJ4FDV > You weren't kidding! I've used the Beverage mainly for listening on 160 and below, but on 40 meters, WOW! Thanks for lighting a fire under me. I just built a 40 meter ground plane I designed in EZNEC. I'm using that to transmit and the Beverages for receiving. I figured that I would run into more difficulties because of the much narrower beamwidth on 40, but not so. 73 Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
