Of course you are correct. However, I have 12 beverages, each about 800'
long at 30 degree intervals. Some of them are relatively flat, some of them
go up and down by about 100', some parts are across rock and some across
swamp. I really can detect no difference in performance between any of them.
I'm quite sure there is a difference, but my feeling is that it is so small
as not to be relevant. Surely the real point is that beverages work
adequately even when gross compromises are made in their construction.
73 Roger
VE3ZI
-----Original Message-----
From: Ford Peterson [mailto:ford@cmgate.com]
Sent: 07 February 2003 10:12
To: Roger Parsons; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage terrain question
Roger wrote:
> My experience is that hills and valleys, trees and rocks make no
measurable
> difference to beverage runs. I tend to follow the terrain because it's
> easier.
>
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
If my memory is correct, this thread has made a couple of nice runs on this
reflector. Each time I see it play, the data to support claims
one-way-or-another is always missing. The only way I can figure to prove
the concept is to build a beverage one way, use a set of well defined signal
sources to measure results, disassemble the beverage and do it a different
way--again, measuring the results. Needless to say there must be a hundred
or more variables that need to be controlled in order to really "prove"
anything. It would be an enourmous amount of work. I wish somebody would
do it. Ditto to height above ground and length over many different
well-defined ground structures.
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
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