The Basic Beverage Antenna

The Beverage antenna is nothing more than a long wire, parallel to the ground, placed approximately 6 feet off of the ground.
The antenna is fed at one end, usually using a transformer to convert its impedance around 450 ohm down to 50 ohm, which is the common impedance of coaxial wires.
The far-off end is terminated to ground through a resistor of approximately 500 ohms. With a termination resistor, the antenna becomes directional, pointing from the termination resistor.
If a termination resistor is not used, the antenna becomes directional in two directions; one pointing from the terminating end, the second from the end where the coax wire is conntected.