> What has been the experience of a reversible Beverage? I am looking at
> building two of these to optimize the diagonal of my property and cover four
> directions.
> I will have a 9:1 Balun and a terminating resistor at each end;
> switchable/selectable by a 12 VDC relay at each end; controlled in the
> shack. The uncharged direction will be the more popular direction which will
> be the normal setup; radio---9:1---antenna---terminating resistor--ground.
> For voltage to the 12VDC relays, I will use an Ameritron control box, only,
> w/ floating ground, feeding four control lines to the appropriate four
> relays.
>
> Does anyone see any problems with this setup and if so, any remedy (ies)..?
>
> Thanks for any / all critiques and ideas.
>
> Mike, K5UO
Mike,
I'm not sure of where you got your design ideas. There is no doubt that there
are a hundred ways to skin a cat. But it does appear that you have made the
project more complex than it needs to be for a reversable beverage. Only one
relay is needed, and the system should default to the most used direction. As
far as 'control lines', I think you should look into using a simple bias T
design to activate the relay to select the other direction--no control lines
needed. Even if you intend to use one feedline for a remote switch to control
both sets of beverages, the bias T could use (+) and (-) voltages to activate
two different sets of relays.
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