Radial wires of any length are an effective Beverage termination, preferably laid on the ground to minimize undesired signal pickup and to avoid the need to use a resonant length.
Elevated radials should be resonant length and opposing each other to cancel signal pickup. For a permanent installation, chicken wire laid on the ground is a superb termination. If laid under gently sloping wires at each end of the Beverage it forms a transmission line that significantly reduces unwanted pickup from what would otherwise be roughly 7 foot omnidirectional vertical termination wires at each end of the Beverage. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <aa...@atlanticbb.net> To: "Steve" <k...@k0xp.com>, "topband" <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2024 12:57:17 AM Subject: Re: Topband: DXpedition Beverage Termination Grounding Schemes?? On K1N we had two ~ 100 foot length radials at right angle at each end of the Beverage. Because of the thick bushes, the radials were about 3 feet above the rocky ground. The antenna worked reasonable well (18 JA QSO-s and hundreds of EU0-s.) George, AA7JV On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:32:21 -0800 Steve Harrison wrote: >When on a DXpedition, and Beverages are quickly tossed and laid out >within several hours, how is the termination resistor "grounded" at the >far end, and the transformer at the near end; with counterpoises, ground >rods, or what? > >And with either of those, how long and how many wires for the >counterpoises, and/or how many and how long the ground rod?? > >I've seen photos of expeditioners laying out Beverage wire through, over >and under thickets full of brambles and thorny bushes; but never have I >seen them laying out counterpoises or pounding in ground rods. > >Curious Steve, K0XP > > >_________________ >Searchable Archives: >http://www.contesting.com/_topband > - Topband Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector