[BC] Long Wire

Cowboy curt at spam-o-matic.net
Sat Feb 20 11:06:43 CST 2010


On Friday 19 February 2010 05:11 pm, Glen Kippel wrote:
>  On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:
>   
>  > A true long wire is a l--o--n--g length ( several wavelengths ) of 
horizontally
>  > suspended, vertically polarized end-fire radiator, usually worked against
>  > an earth ground. 

>  What you are describing here is a Beverage antenna, which is used for 
receiving.

 The Beverage *is* a single specialized case of the long wire category, yes.

-- 
Cowboy



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