Lloyd et all
Isn't a BOG say 3" or 6" high draped over the weeds really now a very
low beverage and not a BOG at all?
It now needs to be longer and terminated to ground on the far end like
you would a beverage in order to be effective?
Wish the NEC4 engine wasn't so expensive I am getting
I just replaced my low 160 meter dipole with an Inverted L to improve my
transmitting signal. The Inverted L is about 2 feet from a crank up tower I
use on other bands.
Here is the general layout:
Tower height is 55 ft. On top is a 4 element WRC tri-bander and 8 feet above
is a 2 element M2
Hello Mark!
I did a similar thing a couple of years ago in order to run a BOG across the
abandoned farm behind my property. Never doing that again!
The following season I set the mower deck to maximum height on my lawn and
garden tractor and drove thru the same field of six foot high weeds and
OK, my wife now is convinced that I have a screw loose in the brain somewhere
(she had plenty of evidence before but decided to give me the benefit of the
doubt until today)I just spent an hour in the hot North Carolina sun,
wearing jeans and a heavy winter jacket so that I could wade
The comments in your first paragraph are very confusing, mixing up
information on different antennas, old or proposed, and parts data,
without clearly distinguishing what each comment refers to. I doubt
that anyone will be able to sort that out unless they went thru the
thread on QRZ.
I have never modelled an inductively-loaded Beverage, but my intuition
is that it will not perform any better than an unloaded wire of the same
physical length.
I haven't modeled for 10 years and even then I was in the dark.
I started on this quest when I saw this W8JI page about inductively
Not enough coffee earlier a better description of the radials: three
90ft radials radials 7'ft high spaced in 120 degree increments (0,
120and 240 degrees)
Another interesting side notes discovered while doing the modeling
1) A three radial version in a 180 degree half circle (0, 90 and 180)
Jerry et all
My personal antenna FOR 160 was/is as follows
160M T:
60' Tall with with a 78' flattop. The "bottom" is at 7' ( so the
actual vertical element is 53') with three 90' radials at 7' spaced
pretty nearly in 60 degree increments ( 60, 120, 240). There is a tapped
inductor in
