Topband: Re: Beverage: Sloping vs. vertical drop

[Jeff Maass]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: topband-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:topband-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Tom Rauch
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 07:02
> To: topband@contesting.com; Donald Chester
> Subject: Topband: Re: Beverage: Sloping vs. vertical drop
> 

> must be ten feet tall to fit above tractors or small trucks. Of 
> course you never want the end of one Beverage to come to the same 
> point as other Beverages, or to switch the high-impedance side with 
> regular relays.73, Tom W8JI
> W8JI@contesting.com 

Tom

Do you mean by this that the ends should not use common 
ground points for feed/termination, or that the ends should not 
be in proximity to each other?

I have two Shorty 2-wire Beverages that are fed ~1.5 feet from each 
other.

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