"Steve" wrote in message
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D Peter Maus wrote:
switcher wrote:
In article .com,
"RHF" wrote:

AM Dxer's are on the Extreme and Technology has Marginalized Us.
We are in the Twilight Zone of . . . Modern AM "HD" {IBOC} Digital
Radio somewhere between Six Sigma and Infinity [.] ~ RHF


AM dxers on the xtreme ??

When my neighbours telly is on, I can't dig further into the noise ..
;-)

When there is noise on your radio, does your body feel the electricity
around ??

what would be extreme ?? sit on an island, away from electricity and
even digital camera's too (put your camera close to your receiver and
listen to the noise ..)



We had one member here, some years ago, who took his Drake SW-2 out
of town, found a stretch of Interstate highway with a steel guard rail,
and connected to that for what became an approximation of a Beverage
that was, in one case, about 12 miles long. He reported some
interesting results


I bet the guard rail didn't remain very straight across an expanse of
roughly twelve miles (though you could find relatively straight guard
rails of that length in some places).

Minor curves or twists in beverage antennas don't seem to make them
inoperative. In many DXpeditions where they are laid out it is necessary to
avoid small obstructions, whether they be a garden, a patch of trees, a rock
formation, etc. and they seem to work just great. My last experience was
aiming at central sub-Saharan Africa from the Guánica, PR beach where I put
a slightly curved beverage across a kind of rocky point, aimed east.