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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