720' Beverage Receive Antenna Demo

Here is a nice demo of a 720' beverage antenna that was installed at K3FGO in MA. The beverage points at 55 deg into EU and is terminated. The beverage hardware was supplied by Array Solutions SWSD-1. We used 1000' of RG6 to feed it.

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[liquidgee13]

A 720 foot antenna with 1,000 feet of RG6? Uh huh, how many people can practically install such a monstrosity? How about a picture of this gargantuan set up?

[ww2dx]

@liquidgee13 I don't think you are familiar with a "Beverage Receive Antenna" Please google that. It's a single wire that is hung in trees or on posts along the ground about 6-10' high over a distance of 720'. It's very simple and cheap to install but yet very effective for low band RX performance. It's far from a "monstrosity".

73 Lee WW2DX

[bestafaro]

Wish you had not talked so much so It would have been easier to assess the difference !

[ww2dx]

@bestafaro Sorry, I feel the difference is very clear from the video. 73 Lee WW2DX

[pastormtg]

It sounds great, but if you can't transmit on a beverage antenna. My point is the beverage is a receive only antenna. If you can't hear them on your transmit antenna, you probably won't be able to work them anyway! Mark KB3Z

[ww2dx]

@pastormtg Yes Mark, its a RX only antenna. And no, improving your signal to noise will greatly affect your likely hood of working DX. If the other station has also improved their S/N ratio then your chances of working them have been greatly improved. There are many good resources on the web to learn more about low band DXing. 73 Lee WW2DX

[n3ite]

I have been considering the Bev rcv antenna... I have about 700 feet to work with... It wold be greater if I coul;d run it thru the woods... do you think that will ahve a negative afffect?

N3ITE

[dtrq30a]

Had sam experience. Been QRT for few years already due to movement of QTH. Had a quarter wave 80m vertical for TX but got all DX on a 200m beverage pointing N/S I'm from Belgium (EU) and DX was always from N/S (VK,ZL JA) on the beverage. Also had a beverage pointing E/W but no DX from that direction. Probably signals followed grey line propagation.

73, ON9CPA

[liquidgee13]

@ww2dx I might not be familiar with a "Beverage Receive Antenna" as you say but I am familiar with 720 feet and I am familiar with 1,000 feet (the legnth of the RG-6 used to feed it) and both a very long indeed. Unless the 720 and 1,000 feet mentioned is shorter than I'm used to it has to be a gargantuan set up especially mounted at the 9 ot 10 feet stated in the video unless that's a lot closer to the ground than I'm used to as well.

[liquidgee13]

@ww2dx Could you provide a picture of the antenna described in the video then to better educate me as to the space it takes up? That way I could better judge the space requirements as 720 still sounds like a lot of real estate for an antenna of any kind. I'd certainly appreciate it and you'd be doing a service of making me more informed.

[kc8ntp]

@pastormtg That is the thing about the 160m band: almost all the DXers use an RX antenna. The same goes for ardent DXers on 75m, too

[kc8ntp]

@ww2dx Agreed, Lee! I guess bestafaro is not used to hearing CW. I could hear the signals just fine; you made enough pauses in your speech to hear what was going on!

[ufoengines]

Do you think that a fractal antenna that uses something like the "Kock Snowflake" fractal would work like a Beverage Antenna?