TopBand: Beverage height

[Clive Penna]

Hi Chris,   For a temporary beverage i would use ordinary wooden fence posts
5ft  together with electric fence nail on insulators. This would put the
antenna at about 4ft or so. My USA beverage is constructed like that with
sufficient distance between the posts to keep
the sag at minimum.
-----Original Message-----
From: Manyoaks <manyoaks@easynet.co.uk>
To: topband@contesting.com <topband@contesting.com>
Date: 19 December 1998 19:26
Subject: TopBand: Beverage height


>
>I have the opportunity to put out an 1100 ft beverage in CQWW160.  It will
>be on a cliff top 200 ft ASL.  We think the soil is chalk over granite.
>
>What would be the optimum height for the beverage?  Is the 10ft recommended
>in ON4UN's book worth the complexity of the supports?  What distance
>between supports would 16 AWG hard drawn copper wire require?
>
>Reply direct and I will produce a digest.
>
>73  &  Seasons Greetings
>
>Chris   G3SVL
>
>
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