Topband
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

To: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground
From: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:37:53 -0700
List-post: <mailto:topband@contesting.com>
My E/W Beverate (bi directional - brute force - transformers on each end
and two feedlines) has probably a 75 foot drop from one end to the other.
Works fine uphill.

Tree N6TR

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:51 AM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 8/2/2023 11:11 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
> > Am I correct in assuming that Beverage wires sloping downward from the
> feed
> > point to the termination will work better than ones that slope upward?
>
> My Beverages are over terrain that starts high, slopes down nearly 100
> ft to a creek, then back up to the elevation where they started. They
> roughly follow that terrain, but one is about 15 ft high where it goes
> over the creek.  They both work fine, only issue is noise from solar
> systems in neighbor homes.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> _________________
> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband
> Reflector
>
_________________
Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>