Topband: Beverage on Ice

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Ron,

You are describing a classic military Beverage used in the Arctic during 
the DEW line installations or Antarctica perhaps today.
Sure run it out on the ice an snow and add a 1/4 wave piece of wire 
running the same direction after the terminating resistor.


Remember, however, if you wand it to work on 80 as well you will need to 
have another 1/4 wave wire for that band, or any other fanning out 
preferably.

73

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ

Ron Feutz wrote:

> Topbanders,
>
> Now that the river is frozen, I want to put out one or two Beverages 
> on the ice.  I haven't been able to find reference material on this.
>
> I will probably put down ~1000' to start.  Any advice on terminating 
> resistance and method?  Short radial field, long single wire in same
> direction as antenna wire?  Combination?  In case it makes any 
> difference, the water depth averages about 12' in the direction I will 
> start with.
>
> How about feed point impedance?
>
> Any references on this subject?
>
> Tnks and 73,
>
> Ron - WA9IRV
>
>
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