Brian,
I'm in the same boat - my beverages have been pretty sucky performers so far
this season. Only very occasionally have they been worth using.
I have also checked everything, and decided that it is conditions. Some have
reported their beverages working well, but they are in noisy locations. My
location is fairly quiet.
73
Ted KR1G
>From: alsopb <alsopb@gloryroad.net>
>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Beverage f/b
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:33:07 +0000
>
>
>Guys,
>
>I'm beginning to think that leaves on the trees is adversly affecting
>the directivity of my beverages.. or the phase of the moon or...?
>
>All 7 of them don't seem to show the directivity on 160/80 that they
>did last winter.
>
>Two are two wire beverages (one of the pair unterminated, the other
>terminated to ground) and three are single wire with resistive
>terminations. All 7 seem to suffer from the same directivity loss.
>
>I've checked all joints, switching paths and even measured the
>terminating resistor values (at DC of course). The Z values as
>measured on an Autek RF-1 on either side of the transformers agrees
>well with last year.
>
>The one thing I can't readily check is the ground side performance.
>
>I'm wondering if it is just too early in the season to expect them to
>perform or because they are run under a canopy of trees which still
>have leaves.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>73 de Brian/K3KO
>
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