Yes, the advantages of having good Beverage antennas in addition to an inverted-L are very well established indeed. I (and thousands of other Topbanders) can vouch for that from personal experience.
Yes, there are times when your inverted-L will out-hear good Beverages. Even DX, *but that is the exception rather than the rule.* The information I wrote below will tell you nearly everything you need to know about building effective Beverage antennas: https://web.archive.org/web/20181115070846/http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html The biggest mistake people make is not installing their Beverages in the correct orientation to the DX. See the information near the bottom of my old webpage there about that. 73 Mike W0BTU On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 8:38 AM Wes <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote: > Rune has kindly spoken up, making some of this discussion moot but I will > continue anyway. > > ... > > I may speak more about RX antennas in another message. > > Wes N7WS > > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
