Bingo! Just because the military does (or did) something with antennas doesn't means it's good for us all to repeat.
There was a discussion some time back that a Beverage must make a good transmitting antenna, because the military does it somewhere. I can vouch for the fact that while we can indeed transmit on a Beverage and make contacts with it, a vertical with a few radials makes a *much *better TX antenna. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tom W8JI <w...@w8ji.com> wrote: > ... the few feet of wire in the matching system is probably the major > radiator in the system ... Most of us already understand an insulated > copper wire thrown over a tree is a far better antenna than the tree could > ever be, and that removing the tree actually INCREASES field strength. The > logical conclusion is the tree is much more a dissipative load than an > antenna. After all, if a tree was even a marginally effective LF or HF > radiator, we would increases in field strength from reflections rather than > just absorption. > _________________ Topband Reflector