- 1. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:32:57 -0400
- I just put up my first Beverage, using aluminum electric fence wire. It's about 280 feet long (max for my property), 7 feet high, with a 440 ohm terminating resistor and a K2ZJ beverage box (with pre
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00606.html (8,484 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: w2up@itw.com (Barry Kutner)
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:33:39 +0000
- Am I Pete - I've used 17 ga galvanized steel electric fence wire, and have been very pleased with performance. A Beverage is a high voltage, low current antenna, so a little extra resistance really s
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00610.html (7,768 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: w0etc@ix.netcom.com (Larry Lindblom)
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:10:04 -0500
- Pete: Similar experience here in Iowa. I put up a 295 foot Beverage and found that 95% of the time the 80 meter 4 square is just as good as or better than the Beverage (in it's favored direction) at
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00612.html (7,724 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:55:53 +0000
- To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Hi Pete, I live on a 300 acre farm way out on a dirt road in the boonies of GA and have a gaggle of 500 ft Beverages a thousand feet or more back from the house. My fou
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00615.html (9,074 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: CQK8DO@aol.com (CQ K8DO)
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:47:54 EDT
- Also, I hit send too fast on the previous message.. Take the beverage box off the line and just use a matching transformer and you will see increased s/n ratio... I have found that preamplifiers seem
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00621.html (7,515 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: w2xx@cloud9.net (J.P. Kleinhaus)
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:21:16 -0400
- Hi Pete: Your experience is not unusual. In my experience, I have found that the 4-square is a very good receiving antenna and will normally surpass the performance of a short (i.e.,300-500 foot) bev
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00622.html (8,835 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Beverage doubts. (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:52:20 +0000
- To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Hi JP, I've been keeping a running total of mornings my Beverages are better than my 160 4 sq. The Beverages are better about 1/3 the time during darkness, and nearly 1
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00636.html (11,104 bytes)
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