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Topband: Terminating System for Beverages

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Subject: Topband: Terminating System for Beverages
From: k4oaq@chartertn.net (Fritz Reuning K4OAQ)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:57:01 -0400
I'm planning to put up several beverages on a farm that has cattle grazing 
all over it.  For obvious reasons gradually sloping the beverages to ground 
level at both ends would require quite a bit of extra fencing to keep the 
cows away from the wire.  In ON4UN's book (2nd edition) he shows a system 
(Fig. 7-17) of a capacitor and 10 ft length of RG-62 to ground one end of a 
two-wire beverage.

Can I use this method to ground a single wire beverage at both ends of the 
beverage?  At the terminating resistor end of the beverage, the resistor & 
capacitor would be 10ft off the ground and then the coax would go 
vertically 10 ft down to a ground rod.  Similarly, at the feed point end of 
the beverage, the matching transformer and feed-line connection would be 10 
ft off the ground.

If the answer to the previous question is yes, then is there any problem 
with several beverages "sharing" the same "ground system", i.e., a single 
capacitor and 10ft length of RG-62, at the feed point end?

Many tks.

73,

Fritz K4OAQ
k4oaq@chartertn.net



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