Hi Doc,
Greetings and Merry X'mas!!!

I remember as a schoolboy, I used a small portable radio to do MW Dxing into the Pacific with very long wire antennas, much like the beverages but no non-inductive resistor teminations at the end(s). I simply coiled a few turns of that wire on to the telescopic antenna and then earthed it. To improve the reception, I would play around the turns at the telescopic antenna, by increasing or reducing it until the signal is the strongest.

I guess u could go the same with a radio without an antenna socket or telescopic antenna, by simply coiling up the wires onto the body of that radio and the earthed it somewhere. This should provide some couplings for your beverage antenna to the ferrite-rod antenna inside the radio. Experiment, and you will most certainly get it !!!

73's de Sly,
9M8SL
Sarawak, East Malaysia.'The Hidden Paradise Of Borneo'