Hi folks, I put up my first beverage recently. It's about 550-600 feet of 17 gauge electric fence wire running to the north about 6-7 feet high. Not terminated right now but using a beverage transfor
Hi Terry, Is there a reason why you're pointing north? That's the wrong direction for Aruba, especially with the very narrow beamwidth it has on 20m! :-) On my Beverage antenna page at www.w0btu.com/
Hi Mike and the group, Oh, the reason the antenna is going to the north is that it's the most convinenant direction to run my first beverage. I also tried some RG-11 (also scrap from some CATV compan
Yup. I get emails all the time from people doing just that (I wish they would ask their Beverage antenna questions here! :-) Think of a rotatable 20m beam, on a tower and with a rotor. *You have to p
No matter where the beverage points to, terminated or not, hearing only s5 static just seems not right to me. Did you connect your antenna to RX IN (not OUT) ? What XFMR do you use? Grounded the coax
Hello All, I may not have seen all of the posts on this topic but will comment anyway. Two things come to mind about this noise. Number one is you do not want to connect the shield of the coax going
Hi Lee, The only thing I've noticed are some pops going on some of the receive antennas that I think may be an electric fence or some power line arcing. They are about 1-2 seconds apart. I see them s
I think the first question is - whats you steady noise level with your TX antenna? Maybe S5 is a 30db improvement. If not, in my experience - steady state noise is either a local point source close t
A couple of thoughts... 5 clip-on ferrites is extremely insufficient at 160m, get some small diameter coax and large toroid core for decoupling. http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf http://www.ka
Thanks to all, I have just swapped out the coax with new RG-6 and it makes a world of difference. On 160 mtrs there isn't hardly anything to judge by since signals if they are there are so low. I tri