TopBand: RE: Beverages (with a capitol "B.")

[Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW]

Greetings Paul and others,

Here's some information from the CQ-Contest Reflector from
a while ago ( October 31, 1996, to be exact). You'll need access
to the World Wide Web, to explore these subjects, however.
     
     73, Glenn Swanson, KB1GW
     E-mail: kb1gw@arrl.org
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Chris N4YGY <cpenick@juno.com> wrote:
>I am looking into the possibility of putting up a Beverage for 80M & 160M
>& want to ask the ones who have one or more up now for some gud info.

Chris and all:

Some of questions that come up here on the reflector have been asked and
discussed a few times already.  I've tried to save the 'good stuff' over
the last couple of years and those articles, plus some contributed things,
have helped build a pretty neat library of ham tips and information.  I
might suggest that either instead of, or in addition to, asking the
question on the reflector, you might spend a few minutes perusing this list
of past articles and summaries from the mail reflectors.

Regarding your question on beverages, a quick search on my site found these
articles:

Antennas, Towers, Feedline
  * Beverage Preamps - Are they Necessary? - by KE1FO (via K1VR)
  * Phased and Single Wire Beverages - by W3LPL (via KM9P) *
  * EWE vs. Beverage - by KD1NG
  * Beverages - by K3MQH

This information can be accessed by going to:  http://www.QTH.com/ka9fox
and then clicking on 'Summaries from Contest/DX Mailing Lists'.

Other categories of information on this page include:

  * Computers and Software
  * Radios and Amplifiers
  * Station Design
  * Operating Techniques
  * Travel / DXpeditions
  * Miscellaneous Information

All of these categories are far from complete, and I welcome any additional
contributions, whether you actually created the 'summary' or simply found
it somewhere and tucked it away on your hard drive.

I hope y'all find this information helpful!  If you have trouble finding
what you are looking for, there is an extensive search engine available,
which searches all pages on the QTH.com site for keywords you specify.

73 - Scott KA9FOX
Web address:  http://www.QTH.com/ka9fox
E-mail address: neader@centuryinter.net
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>From: KS9K Paul Hellenberg
>To: topband
>Cc: chad_kurszewski
>Date: Monday, November 25, 1996 12:35PM
>
>------------------Internet Headers------------------
>From: KS9K Paul Hellenberg <paulh@truline.com>
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>We currently are using two, 2-wire beverages.  We have to take them down
>every year and some years the performance is poor.  This year, we have
>almost no F/B and have done several things to improve it or determine if
>anything is wrong, with no improvement.
>
>We are considering going to four seperate terminated beverages.
>
>The question is this:  Can we use our old 2-wire beverage supports for
>the terminated beverages?  They are 10' tall with 12" spacing between
>the wires.  Will this affect/degrade the performance of two, opposite
>direction, terminated beverages?
>
>
>73 Paul
>
>KS9K@contesting.com  or
>Paul Hellenberg  paulh@truline.com
>Tru Line Lithograhing Inc. 414 554 7300 X125

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