Re: [IRCA] Beverage antenna kit

[Patrick Griffith <antennawizard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very good points Chuck. I have no experience at all with the Beverage antenna. I have never lived in a place where I could erect one. I just noticed this kit on e-bay and thought I'd point it out.
  
> From: charlesh3@xxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:57:31 +0000
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Beverage antenna kit
> 
> What I would ask this fellow is what ferrite material he used. Hams tend to use cores good from 2 - 30 MHZ and they don't work too well when used for LW and most of MW. A popular ham core is Amidon type 43, and it certainly is not optimum for LW.
> 
> And if I am going to pay someone to provide me with a mounted, enclosed termination resistor I would want to know it is a carbon composition type, rather than the extremely more prevalent carbon film resistor which can't take any kind of energy from a lightning discharge.
> 
> Maybe his stuff is recommendable for us, and maybe not.
> 
> Chuck 		 	   		  
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