Beverage antenna for the american continent
 

Hello antenna news group.

I have made my first Beverage antenna and its 400 meters long.
Its absolutely outstanding so I just had to show the rest of the world what
a Beverage really can do.
I put my receiver with the Beverage up on the DX-Tuners network
(http://dxtuners.com) so anyone can try and tune it.

But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?

Best regards

Kelly Lindman

Kelly wrote:


But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?


:-)

It means that Budwieser is gonna sue your ass if you use their cans to
build the thing!

:-)

Harv, AI9NL

Kelly wrote:

But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?


:-)

It means that Budwieser is gonna sue your ass if you use their cans to
build the thing!

:-)

Harv, AI9NL

But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?

Kelly, Don't confuse copyrighting with a patent.
I am only a layman, so lawyers will tell me I am all wrong, but
basically I think all you are talking about is that something someone
wrote (such as a magazine article), if they indicate it is
copyrighted, means you cannot copy their material. It has nothing to
do with your rights to do anything you want with a Beverage antenna.
In fact, you can copyright your netnews postings if you want !! (see
below)

BTW - I also have a Beverage. Mine is 500 ft long in NJ, pointed
towards Europe and it does great. Many 80 and 160 m signals down in
the noise on a dipole are Q5 with the Bev. Also brings in AM
broadcast signals to the NE fantastic.

73,
Rick K2XT
(above article copyright 2004, all rights reserved !!!!)

Ok Rich. Thanks for the answer. I must have ment the Beverage antenna
patent, which I read somewhere.
It sure is an awesome antenna. Yesterday Latin America was wide open but it
was only me that made a logging.
I have equipped my remotely controlled MW Tuner with a user log button so
that people can log what they hear for others to see.

In addition I have also messed with an array of EWE antennas on my farm,
also remotely controlled by users.
And even though I am not a skilled DXer, peope who use it say the EWE is
extreme and less noisy.
I have some picture of this array here
http://www.dxtuners.com/index.jsp?ib_page=29

73
Kelly, SM7NHC


"Rick " skrev i meddelandet
...

But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?

Kelly, Don't confuse copyrighting with a patent.
I am only a layman, so lawyers will tell me I am all wrong, but
basically I think all you are talking about is that something someone
wrote (such as a magazine article), if they indicate it is
copyrighted, means you cannot copy their material. It has nothing to
do with your rights to do anything you want with a Beverage antenna.
In fact, you can copyright your netnews postings if you want !! (see
below)

BTW - I also have a Beverage. Mine is 500 ft long in NJ, pointed
towards Europe and it does great. Many 80 and 160 m signals down in
the noise on a dipole are Q5 with the Bev. Also brings in AM
broadcast signals to the NE fantastic.

73,
Rick K2XT
(above article copyright 2004, all rights reserved !!!!)

Patents don't last forever, and the beverage antenna has been around
forevern'forever. You can build a duplicate of anything you want to,
you just can't "manufacture for sale". Wish I had the property here on
the Gulf Coast for a beverage. I'm just able to get my multi-band
dipole on my lot by having an L shaped flat top. It works pretty good
so I shouldn't complain.

Butch KF5DE

Kelly wrote:
Ok Rich. Thanks for the answer. I must have ment the Beverage antenna
patent, which I read somewhere.
It sure is an awesome antenna. Yesterday Latin America was wide open but it
was only me that made a logging.
I have equipped my remotely controlled MW Tuner with a user log button so
that people can log what they hear for others to see.

In addition I have also messed with an array of EWE antennas on my farm,
also remotely controlled by users.
And even though I am not a skilled DXer, peope who use it say the EWE is
extreme and less noisy.
I have some picture of this array here
http://www.dxtuners.com/index.jsp?ib_page=29

73
Kelly, SM7NHC


"Rick " skrev i meddelandet
...

But I heard recently that the Beverage concept is copyrighted??? Is this
true? If so, what does that mean?

Kelly, Don't confuse copyrighting with a patent.
I am only a layman, so lawyers will tell me I am all wrong, but
basically I think all you are talking about is that something someone
wrote (such as a magazine article), if they indicate it is
copyrighted, means you cannot copy their material. It has nothing to
do with your rights to do anything you want with a Beverage antenna.
In fact, you can copyright your netnews postings if you want !! (see
below)

BTW - I also have a Beverage. Mine is 500 ft long in NJ, pointed
towards Europe and it does great. Many 80 and 160 m signals down in
the noise on a dipole are Q5 with the Bev. Also brings in AM
broadcast signals to the NE fantastic.

73,
Rick K2XT
(above article copyright 2004, all rights reserved !!!!)