
The Beverage antenna is a long wire receiving antenna mainly used in the high frequency (shortwave) and medium frequency radio bands. It is used by amateur radio, shortwave listening, and longwave radio DXers and military applications. Harold H. Beverage experimented with receiving antennas similar to the Beverage antenna in 1919 at the Otter Clif...
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a travelling-wave receiving antenna composed of a long horizontal conductor relatively near a ground of poor conductivity, connected to the receiver at one end, oriented in the direction of the transmitter and connected to ground through an appropriate impedance at the far end
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