When they built and installed the beverages they noticed they had just as much noise as the other antennas if not more.
I modeled the Beverage and discovered it was a very high loss antenna. The soil was the lossy element and if you tried to reduce the loss by tuning the termination and matching networks you compromised the front to back ratios and lost directionality. The performance of the Beverage was dependent on soil characteristics and difficult to model and variable to to due to rain etc. We put an oscillator in the undesired direction. Before a contest the termination and matching was tweaked to null the oscillator in the park while favoring European stations. The Beverage is a lossy antenna with the least loss in the desired direction when correctly terminated and matched for the soil conditions. BCNU DE N2LO~> > On 11/13/2023 11:45 AM EST Glenn Williams via wsjt-devel > <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > This is a theory question. There is a bit of FT8 on 160m. Does use of a > Beverage Antenna to get more signal raise the S/N value? Would that > antenna help with receiving weaker signals (a variation of that S/N > question)? > --73, Glenn, AF8C > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
