J. McLaughlin wrote:
After investigating a large set of traveling wave antennas (not
Beverage) I think that the smallest amount of power dissipated in the
terminating resistance was about 2 db.

Just modeled the subject antenna as well as I can. Without the
termination resistors, the antenna has a gain of +6 dBi on 3.8
MHz. With the termination resistors, according to EZNEC, the
gain drops to -10 dBi, a difference of 16 dB.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp