Hi Steve
I am fairly confident that Sudbury counts as a cold place...
I have found Beverages to be very insensitive indeed to their locale and
operating conditions. (I have a total of 15, mostly phased.) I now use 4 x 50'
radials at each end, but have previously used 3 x 25'. I do not believe t
I am in PA, not out west, but I managed to work 60 EU stations last night
(Wednesday night / Thursday morning).For my small station, this was
absolutely huge and completely unexpected!!
This was the first time I used the BOG exclusively.
Shut down at 0730Z and went to sleep, and the alarm c
I thought I'd share my own experience with Beverages and *newly-driven-in
ground rods* in frozen soil. Here's a relevant excerpt from
www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html#Beverage_antenna_grounds
"When I [first] put up my ... Beverage, ... I occasionally had to 'help'
the ground conductivity at th
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