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Re: K3 & Beverages on 160

Posted by Geoffrey Downs-2 on Feb 01, 2010; 9:42pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/K3-Beverages-on-160-tp4490135p4497159.html

Another factor may be the ground the beverage runs over. Beverages perform
well over poor ground but poorly over good ground such as a saltmarsh.

Good luck Gary

73 to all

Geoff
G3UCK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Olinger K2AV" <[hidden email]>

Using a house ground for a signal ground on a beverage will IMPOSE
house noise on the beverage, rendering it useless and apparently
without pattern.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Gary Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
> It's my understanding the Beverage is supposed to be a quiet antenna
> but as mine are not, perhaps there's an obvious reason why mine
> behave so badly? #1 is in a salt marsh with nothing around it and #2
> runs along the marsh and terminates just before railroad tracks.
>
> I surely must be doing something wrong.
>

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