Jamie, I have the same setup, i.e., 2 #14 wires spaced 12". The impedance is about 750 ohms and there is a mismatch to the DXE system but I don't think it's enough to make a major difference in recei
Bob, Google beverage antenna and you will come up with a wealth of info. Short is OK but you still have to match its impedance and, if I read your post correctly, there are a few steps you will need
John, See: http://www.elisanet.fi/oh3xr/OH2BEN_Reversible_Beverage_Array-20-10-2007_04d.pdf for an excellent article on a reversible beverage project. Also, go to w8ji.com for great detail on beverag
The length of radials on the ground doesn't matter except that you need to remember the ground currents are highest nearer to the vertical. Many 50-75 foot radials will be fine, insulated or not. I h
Well actually I shot a line up in a tree with a slingshot and used that line to hoist a plastic clothesline pulley. Prior to hoisting, I ran the inverted L through the clothesline pulley. The radius
Charles, I have two reversible beverages running through the woods. They both follow the terrain and are about 5-6 feet off the ground on average. One of them is about 500' and runs towards JA down t
Dave, I have. I can give you only anecdotal results since I have not measured it in any way. As far as I can tell, it works as well with 450 ohm ladder line as the home brew version I use with 12" pa
Worked FK8CP this AM. I have been trying for three years and finally got through. Maybe the 10 new radials I added to the inverted L last weekend actually did something. Les W2LK Rifton, NY _________
Wayne, All my inverted L radials are THHN. First it's easy to find, second it's relatively inexpensive for what you get and third the soil around here is really tough on copper. There is a lot of sul
Walt, Having done just that, here is what I did: I have an Ameritron RCS-8V remote 5 port antenna switch at the support point for one of the Beverages. The other beverage termination is connected to
Wayne, That's what mine does with the same components. Works fine. Les W2LK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
On Lord Howe Island last summer, on 160M, we deployed a Spiderbeam 18M fiberglass telescopic pole with a 1/4 wave wire taped to it. The excess wire came off the top like an inverted L and was tied to
Bryan, Use RG-6 direct burial or equivalent for the beverage connection. No need to use LMR400. You should be able to find it relatively inexpensively. Make sure you have a matching transformer for t
I heard the same thing you did Gary but I wasn't able to break the pileup on either band. I hope I can eventually get through what is among the worst intentional QRM on a DX station that I have heard
Dave, For design parameters check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_tee I use a home brew one for reversing remote beverages which is a .1uf cap and any small rf choke in the 100uh and up range
Mike, Here's a link to an article on crimp UHF connectors with suppliers. It's from 2008 so the prices may have changed: http://www.eham.net/articles/19257 Today, you can get a crimp tool from a numb
I do the same thing except I hang a 4" plastic clothes line pulley from the rope. The antenna wire runs through the pulley. Ended all the abrasion issues and I can easily lower the pulley if necessar
I use ladder line from the Wireman and from Davis RF. I think the conductors are copper plated solid steel. I bought 1/4" thick 2" wide strips of acrylic from McMaster Carr and made a pair of clamps
Nice going. I worked them at 1121Z, ten minutes before my sunrise this AM. Good signal and little QRM. Inverted L and a beverage. Les W2LK Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg@arrl.net ht
Gary, I know I heard you in there last night and I think they got you OK. I heard them come back to K2QMF very clearly. 73, Les W2LK might have ended up not in the log. I really don't want to add to