Beverages In The Wash!

It's not the best video, filmed without using a tripod to so expect the worst! For best quality, click on the HD option in the main YouTube page and go full screen.

This video shows one of the many excellent locations in the area suitable for running out large antennas such as the Beverage, or BOG (Beverage On the Ground). The location above is close to the village of Friskney, mid-way between Skegness and Boston. There are often many dog walkers use this area (not doggers this time, thankfully) so I have to be careful where I run the wires.

Already, this location has produced some good signals from the far east on medium wave, including a plethora of Chinese stations, most of which are still to be identified. I have yet to try a beverage to North America from there but plans are already afoot.

The is the largest estuary system in the UK and is roughly shaped like a square with 15 miles on each side. It separates he curved coastline of East Anglia from Lincolnshire. I will quote below from the Wikipedia page which gives a brief decription of The Wash but click here to read more about this beautiful and tranquil location. There are some better photographs in this article

The Wash varies enormously in water temperature throughout the year. Winter temperatures are brought near freezing from the cold North Sea flows. Summer water temperatures can reach into the low 20s degrees C (about 70 degrees F) after prolonged high ambient air temperature and sun. This effect, which typically happens in the shallow areas around beaches, and often only in pockets of water, is exaggerated by the large sheltered tidal reach. 

The Wash is a Special Protection Area (SPA) under European Union legislation. It is made up of very extensive salt marshes, major intertidal banks of sand and mud, shallow waters and deep channels. The seawall at Freiston has been breached in three places to increase the saltmarsh area, to provide an extra habitat for birds, particularly waders, and also as a natural flood prevention measure. The extensive creeks in the salt marsh, and the vegetation that grows there, helps dissipate wave energy thus improving the protection afforded to land behind the saltmarsh.

To the northwest, the Wash extends to Gibraltar Point, another Special Protection Area. On the eastern side of the Wash, one finds low chalk cliffs with their famous stratum of red chalk, at Hunstanton, and lagoons at Snettisham RSPB reserve, which are an important roost for waders at high tide. This SPA borders onto the North Norfolk Coast Special Protection Area.