- 1. Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: "KL7RA" <kl7ra@ptialaska.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:07:31 -0400
- During the normal Dayton hallway chatter someone mentioned that a beverage running down a hill towards the target area worked better or just as well as his beverage running in a flat field. Anyone el
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- 2. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: Charlie Young <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:47:13 -0500
- Here in WV, I just completed my first topband season. My beverages (three) all run downslope in the desired direction, and they all seem to work well. In the west direction, I did some experimenting
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- 3. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 07:45:30 -0400
- In the 1990s, I had a 660-ft Beverage at previous QTH in northern Delaware that went from 90 feet elevation to 30 feet elevation.This was a 10-foot-high single wire with feedlines and relays to each
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- 4. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro.tcg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:09:02 -0500
- Two of my Beverages are over sloping ground. One is 550' long and bi-directional NE/SW, with an elevation change of about 100'. It seems to work equally well in either direction. The other is unidire
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00102.html (8,264 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:32:03 -0700
- I can not provide a comparison, simply because my Beverages run up and down ravines, and terminate into the side of upslopes. I'd estimate the elevation change at 40-50 ft. For both beverages, both e
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00103.html (8,477 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:04:57 -0700
- My Japan / SouthEast beverage is similar to this. One end is about 80 feet above the other - over a distance of about 500 feet. It is a single wire with relays and ground rods. It works very well in
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- 7. Re: Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:09:58 -0400
- First reports from direct e-mail indicate mixed results which I guess should be expected as everyone has different terrain, ground and construction techniques. There was no overwhelming response that
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00106.html (8,555 bytes)
- 8. Topband: down hill slope for a beverage (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:44 -0400
- So don't worry about the terrain topography - the beverages aren't - they just want to work. 73 Brian VE3MGY _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.co
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