Here is a nice demo of a 720′ beverage antenna that was installed at K3FGO in MA. The beverage points at 55 deg into EU and is terminated. The beverage hardware was supplied by Array Solutions SWSD-1. We used 1000′ of RG6 to feed it.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Congrats! The beverage is working as it should, really great S/N improvement comparing to INV L. 73’s
Impressive! I’m jealous. GL to you guys.
73, Bob K8IA/N7AT
It sounds great, but if you can’t transmit on a beverage antenna. My point is the beverage is a receive only antenna. If you can’t hear them on your transmit antenna, you probably won’t be able to work them anyway! Mark KB3Z
Wish you had not talked so much so It would have been easier to assess the difference !
KB3Z
You’re correct,you can’t transmit on a beverage,but if you have a dipole at least 130′ at the feedpoint,or an inverted L , which is what I use, I work Europe on a regular basis with ease from the east coast. Keep in mind Euro stations using beverage recv antennas also.
73
Yes Mark, its a RX only antenna. And no, improving your signal to noise will greatly affect your likely hood of working DX. If the other station has also improved their S/N ratio then your chances of working them have been greatly improved. There are many good resources on the web to learn more about low band DXing. 73 Lee WW2DX
Sorry, I feel the difference is very clear from the video. 73 Lee WW2DX
Do you think that a fractal antenna that uses something like the “Kock Snowflake” fractal would work like a Beverage Antenna?
Agreed, Lee! I guess bestafaro is not used to hearing CW. I could hear the signals just fine; you made enough pauses in your speech to hear what was going on!
That is the thing about the 160m band: almost all the DXers use an RX antenna. The same goes for ardent DXers on 75m, too
A 720 foot antenna with 1,000 feet of RG6? Uh huh, how many people can practically install such a monstrosity? How about a picture of this gargantuan set up?
I don’t think you are familiar with a “Beverage Receive Antenna” Please google that. It’s a single wire that is hung in trees or on posts along the ground about 6-10′ high over a distance of 720′. It’s very simple and cheap to install but yet very effective for low band RX performance. It’s far from a “monstrosity”.
73 Lee WW2DX
Could you provide a picture of the antenna described in the video then to better educate me as to the space it takes up? That way I could better judge the space requirements as 720 still sounds like a lot of real estate for an antenna of any kind. I’d certainly appreciate it and you’d be doing a service of making me more informed.
I might not be familiar with a “Beverage Receive Antenna” as you say but I am familiar with 720 feet and I am familiar with 1,000 feet (the legnth of the RG-6 used to feed it) and both a very long indeed. Unless the 720 and 1,000 feet mentioned is shorter than I’m used to it has to be a gargantuan set up especially mounted at the 9 ot 10 feet stated in the video unless that’s a lot closer to the ground than I’m used to as well.
Had sam experience. Been QRT for few years already due to movement of QTH. Had a quarter wave 80m vertical for TX but got all DX on a 200m beverage pointing N/S I’m from Belgium (EU) and DX was always from N/S (VK,ZL JA) on the beverage. Also had a beverage pointing E/W but no DX from that direction. Probably signals followed grey line propagation.
73, ON9CPA
I have been considering the Bev rcv antenna… I have about 700 feet to work with… It wold be greater if I coul;d run it thru the woods… do you think that will ahve a negative afffect?
N3ITE
No, it doesn’t have negative effect.