W4IQ wrote:
<What effect will the slope have on the pattern of a Beverage?
This should lower the effective takeoff angle of your
Beverage. Your ground is sloping down about 17 degrees (arc
tan 300/1000). The takeoff angle for a 1000' Beverage on flat
average ground is 27 degrees with a vertical beamwidth of 35
degrees. Thus your sloping Beverage should have a takeoff of
10 degrees (27 minus 17) with the same vertical beamwidth.
I would think this would work well but there might be
times when signals will be arriving well above the angles that
your Beverage will receive best (0-27.5 degrees). At least
this is better than running the Beverage uphill which would
have the opposite effect of raising the takeoff angle by 17
degrees! I have used downhill sloping Beverages for many years
and they seem to work well although my slope is not as great
as yours.
73, Bill W4ZV
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