Hi all,
I pretend to put 2 beverages up for the next CQWW160, and left them stay there.
I am living in a slope in the country, so the wire will not run flat. Also I
have to cross a country-road, so the high will be also modified, and expect
highs between 9ft to 12ft, perhaps sometimes a bit more. I think I can run
550ft (300º USA) long wire, maybe 1 of them around 700ft (045º JA/ASIA). The
thing is that I will be testing one within the next week, and left it "open".
If it works good, than I will have bi-directional beverage, but if not
satisfied, then I will have to "terminate" it, so I will need to run some 500ft
coax line to feed the antenna. To left it open: should I ground the xformer
side..? Or just connect it together with the coax shield..?I have played with
"binocular" ferrites like Tom W8JI does, but no good results here. So I played
with toroids with a testing (MFJ-259) results of: SWR 1.1/1 and 42 ohms with a
680 resistor, is that a good value to start playing with beverages..? I cann´t
find better wire here, so I have bought 1,5mm multifiliar coated electric line.
Any tips are welcome. Tnx!
Josep
EA6BF
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