Hi Felipe,
As W4ZV noted in his posting, three meter ground rod spacing was
not enough when he brought multiple Beverages to a common point.
A much better solution is to use inexpensive hermetically sealed
relays to connect only the selected Beverage to a single ground rod.
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Filipe Lopes" <ct1ilt@gmail.com>
To: "k1fz" <k1fz@myfairpoint.net>, "topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:17:51 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
what about 7 ground rods 20cm apart, will it do ?
73's Filipe Lopes
CT1ILT - CR6K
F4VPX - TM3M
2016-03-22 14:09 GMT+01:00 K1FZ-Bruce <k1fz@myfairpoint.net>:
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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:04:06 -0400
> From: K1FZ-Bruce
> Reply-To: k1fz@myfairpoint.net
> Subject: Topband: Fwd: Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
> To: Topband
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> I agree. We have been thinking of switching at the coax cable location.
> Will need to correct my Beverage notes page.
>
> The W4ZV and W3LPL method will work.
>
> 73
> Bruce-K1FZ
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> www.qsl.net/k1fzbeverage_antenna.html
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> http://www,qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
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> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Tippett -----
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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:19:48 -0400
> From: Bill Tippett
> Reply-To: Bill Tippett
> Subject: Re: Topband: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
> To: topband
>
> W3LPL:
>
> >Another solution is to use
> relays to connect only the selected Beverage to the ground rod
> and disconnect the other seven.
>
> I've done this for 31 years from 3 different locations with no problems.
> From a 2011 post on this subject:
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