Topband: Reversible Beverage

[Garry & Yelena]

Hardy:

I built two of them with 300 ohm ladder line, and observed Tom's
recommendations re isolating the Beverage from the feedline. The
transformers are excellent--quite flat--and straightforward to build. I
used RG6 TV coax and type-F hardware.

I do not share your judgement that such an antenna is particularly
"complex and expensive," although I would agree that it is in comparison
to a single-wire, single-direction basic terminated Beverage. To my
thinking, obtaining bidirectional operation with one antenna and one
feedline is worth the effort to build some simple hardware.

I think Tom's tech note in Comm Quart is about the best Beverage design
I have seen.

Garry, NI6T



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