[Elecraft] K3 & Beverages on 160

[Geoffrey Downs]

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" <olinger at bellsouth.net>

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 <Gary at ka1j.com> 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.
>