The Beverage antenna was developed in the 1920's by American radio pioneer Harold H. Beverage.
Here we tell you all about it.

Basic info
Dr. Beverage on the Beverage
In this interview, Harold H. Beverage explains his work with the fundamental wave antenna, named after him.
"As the signal travels along with velocity of light the way, it induces a little signal that keeps building up and building up and building up until at the far end it's quite strong. It builds up quite a strong signal", said Dr. Beverage, adding:
"The beauty of the wave antenna is that it is not tuned to anything except periodic, and it receives a wide band of wave-lengths equally well." -- Read more --

"My first radio had a pretty good antenna"
In this interview, Harold H. Beverage tells how he first got interested in radio.
" I was about ten years old when I built my first radio. I had a pretty good antenna. It was 60 feet high and 100 feet long. I used to hear very strong signals from the ships bound for Europe", said Mr. Beverage in this interview by Frederick Nebeker in March 1992. -- Read more --

How to
How to install a perfect Beverage
A Bowen, N4OO: Installing a Beverage is not a trivial "all you gotta do is..." project. It takes a lot of material, and some amount of sweat. -- Read more --

Beverage in the woods
How to run Beverage antennas through thick woods. -- Read more --

How long?
What is the best length for a Beverage? One two, or many wavelengths?
Long Beverages overrated -- Tom Rauch
Two wavelengths near optimum -- Earl Cunningham
You'll need at least four wavelengths -- Jan E Holm

Wires
Advantages of stranded copper wire
George Dowell, K0FF: I have tried fence wire, but it seems to break a lot more than 18 gauge stranded electric wire. -- Read more --

Feed lines
How to balance your antenna
Tom Rauch, W8JI: Discussing the need, or not, for shielding metal boxes, and how to balance different antennas as Beverage, small loops, Flag and Pennant. -- Read more --

Grounding
Why terminate a Beverage
Terminating the far end of the Beverage makes it unidirectional. It also makes the receiving angle of the antenna lower. -- Read more --

Poor ground, better Beverage
Poorer conducting earth beneath a Beverage gives better performance. -- Read more --

Remote controlling
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Views
Carefully nulled Beverage fanatastic
Herbert Schoenbohm: A carefully nulled Beverage is nothing short of fantastic for digging out signals. -- Read more --

Carefully nulled Beverage fanatastic
Tom Rauch, W8JI: Several wavelength-long Beverages are over-rated. I never saw a significant improvement with long Beverages compared to 1 wl antennas. -- Read more --

Beverage antennas - some pratical views
    Easiest: use fences, street gutters, plain ground
    Easier yet: just reel it out
    Works great on the ground
    No moose problems - just mouse...
    Scooters don't mix well with wire...
    ...nor do snakes
    Beverage antennas effective on entire HF range
    Phased multiple beverage antennas more effective
    Why terminate a Beverages