Victor, Garry, and top-band lurkers. I had to stand back and
do a little hand waving of my own. I wish I still had a blackboard
on my wall. First; yes Garry, I did not say it very well. I look at a
2 wire Beverage forward direction as being the same as a one
wire-one way Beverage.
So Victor, after looking at your hand waving for a day I had
a DUH moment. I had allready conceded to myself that the one
open/one grounded worked in the reverse direction. I guess
what Victor is really saying is that if it works in one direction it
will work in the other. It is reciprocal and so the differential
mode load port terminates the forward direction. OK, I can buy
that. I am still curious about what effects the resistance of the
ground rod showing up in one of the differential lines instead
of the common mode line might be. Now I really am interested
in a VNA plot of both types of Beverage assemblies.
I will someday do some VNA plots on one my transformer
Beverages and then convert it to a one open/one grounded
type to compare them.
This is going to be really interesting. I know the reason for this
discussion in the first place is that Greg ZL3IX has taken down
his wide spaced 8-circle remote array and made a new
relocated remote array using Beverages. It seems from his
comment so far that the Beverages are working really well for
him. Maybe better than the 8-circle? On the other hand, I just
built my first wide spaced 8-circle this year and it is kicking the
pants off my 1000 ft Beverages. Yes, I still have my smaller
diameter 8 element array. It has a demonstrated better RDF but
not as clean of a pattern.
Nothing has changed, one can never have enough antennas.
Lee K7TJR OR
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