ON4UN
Back in 1985 Rick, K5UR gave a talk on his setup which included
seven Beverages criscrossing each other and running very near his
tower.
He found no noise from their near proximity to his tower.
You might want to check out his experience. His results
certainly seem to indicate that he is doing something right!!
73
Don K5AQ
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> From: Bill Tippett <btippett@CTC.Net>
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: TopBand: Re: [3830] KZ5MM CQ-160 SSB Alligator Explanation!
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 3:33 PM
>
> ON4UN wrote:
>
> >On 160 a Beverage must be at least 100 ft (strict minimum) from a big
> >transmit antenna.
>
> John, that has not been my experience. My JA Beverage is currently
> less than 50 ft from my 180 ft shunt fed tower with no noticeable
> difference in noise compared to other Beverages. In Colorado, I also
> had a Beverage about the same distance from my 1/4 wave elevated GP with
> no noticeable problems (in fact it was my main Beverage toward EU).
> It did not seem to be a problem either for shunt fed (nonresonant) or
> base insulated (resonant) antennas...maybe I'm just lucky!
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
>
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