[HCDX]: Beverage - how long?

["Karel Honzik" <karel.honzik@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Hermod Pedersen writes a.o.:
>But a beverage is unbeatable for reception on any shortwave band. And it's
>fantastic on the tropical bands. Even if it is 600 meters long, 10
>wavelengths on 60 meter.


I have read somewhere that the most effective are 3 wavelengths. To built a
beverage longer than 5 wavelenghts is not (they say) worth of effort as its
gain raises only very slowly.
Anybody with different experience?

GOOD DX,

Karel Honzik,
the Czech Republic
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