TopBand: Another Beverage Question.

[Bill Hohnstein]

W7EW wrote:
>
>... Has anyone utilized a non-terminated Beverage in order to use it for
>2 directions? ...

  For the past two years I've had 5 terminated Beverages and one terminated
one.  This year I'll have 6 terminated Beverages (hopefully I'll finish
installation of the final two tomorrow).  I left the one unterminated
because of having problems running it long enough in one direction
without crossing a road.  However, the unterminated one always had a
significantly higher noise level and rarely was used since it seldom was
better for receive.  The same results occurred with 550' or 825' long
Beverages (different years) [both about 1 meter above ground level, with
very good ground conductivity here].
  This year the coax will be longer (away from the road) and the
Beverage will be terminated...

73,  Bill     K0HA




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