Very good points Chuck. I have no experience at all with the Beverage antenna. I have never lived in a place where I could erect one. I just noticed this kit on e-bay and thought I'd point it out. > From: charle...@msn.com > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:57:31 +0000 > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Beverage antenna kit > > What I would ask this fellow is what ferrite material he used. Hams tend to > use cores good from 2 - 30 MHZ and they don't work too well when used for LW > and most of MW. A popular ham core is Amidon type 43, and it certainly is not > optimum for LW. > > And if I am going to pay someone to provide me with a mounted, enclosed > termination resistor I would want to know it is a carbon composition type, > rather than the extremely more prevalent carbon film resistor which can't > take any kind of energy from a lightning discharge. > > Maybe his stuff is recommendable for us, and maybe not. > > Chuck _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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