Horizontal long wire MW aerial.

[colly0410]

How come the Beveridge aerial works the best. My mate has a 1km long straight Beveridge at 4 meters off ground terminated with 330 ohms at the far end. Reception is mind blowing.

Think this is a traveling wave type aerial IIRC, it's several wavelengths long so the radio waves sort of push themselves along the wire, it has to be pointing in the general direction of the transmitter. My aerial at my parents house was about 50 feet long..