[BC] Long Wire

[Lotus Engineering]

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 Glen said;
"What you are describing here is a Beverage antenna, which is used for receiving.  These are fairly often used by MW DXers, especially in Finland.  I have a monograph published by the FCC, written by H. H. Beverage and describing the antennas used at the Grand Island and Podwer Springs monitoring stations.  Typical height abive ground for a proper Beverage is about 10 feet, though in Finland they usually just lay the wire across a frozen lake."
	I have received several DX reports from northern Sweden where one of the clubs has a camp set up for DXing with a 3000 foot Beverage antenna although they have not told me its height.  They included MPEG recordings.  If I wasn't an experienced QRP ham operator I'd have had trouble pulling
these stations out of the noise, but they have gotten all three of my AM's, 920, 1100, and 1460.  Happy to QSL these guys.
Bill

 Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV