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From: "Tree"
> The lesson learned about the Beverage is to not worry too much about
> having
> the antenna go down into a ravine (small canyon). I have two beverages
> now
> that are about 180 meters long, and go down about 30 meters in height -
> and a 30 meter hill in front of them... but they both work very well.
That's good to know because last year I had miserable luck getting my
beverage experiment to work in sloping terrain. In succession, I tried
lengths of about 650, 850, 950, and 1100 ft up a fairly steep hillslope of
15 to 18 degrees gradient (the slope continues for 2 miles), and for each
time I lengthened it I optimized the termination resistance for a
minimum-varying SWR. It did not provide any improvement in S/N toward EU
over my dipole or K9AY. In fact it was rather "deaf" . I had made an
assumption that it was due to the steep run upslope. I am now wondering
about other factors - such as the heavy timber on the slope, and/or the
rocky ground which forced me to use three 1/4-wave radials at the
termination rather than a ground rod. I believe my feedpoint was just fine.
I think I will try this experiment again with the better EU signals this
year (and landowner permission).
Steve KK7UV
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