I agree with Jim. Beverages don't have to be ideal to work very well indeed, thank you. It's the matching transformers (and maybe their grounds) that are a more important thing to worry about.
You need not worry that trees and bushes will attenuate the signal at HF. Lots of people have installed them in deep woods. If you installed two identical, separate Beverages pointed in the same direction --one in the woods and one in the clear-- I doubt if you would be able to tell any difference between the way they work. My Beverages run through the woods for a portion of their length, and they work fine. Although I don't have any leaves or other foliage actually touching my Beverage's bare open-wire line, there are plenty of places where the antenna runs past them. And one of them is supported by tree trunks for about half of its length. 73, Mike http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jim Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > Mine ... through a lot of brush and scrub trees. ... Bottom line -- > Beverages don't have to be ideal to work. > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
