[BC] Long wire antennas

[Glen Kippel]

On Jan 16, 2008 8:06 AM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:


>  Try a "true" long wire.
>  No vertical section, and something like 12 or 20 wavelengths long.
>
>  Or, for a truly long wire, 100 wavelengths.
>

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The antennas designed by H. H. Beverage are typically about 1 wavelength,
with performance beginning to degrade significantly above 2 WL.  I see no
reason why the effect would not be the same for transmitting as for
receiving.  (The Beverage of course is for receiving only.)