Topband: beverage impedance

[Telegrapher9 at aol.com]

I've been working on some methods to determine proper Beverage termination. 
Some time domain and some frequency domain. Has anyone tried a TDR on a 
Beverage? I would use a pulse generator with a 10 ns rise time and a pad to set the 
output impedance to around 500 ohms. A 50 MHz oscilloscope is plenty fast to 
look at it. This should give a resolution of <10 feet and allow one to see how 
the impedance varies along the length of the Beverage. A simpler method is to 
operate the Beverage as a Transmission Line Pulse Generator and one can get the 
same information. If anyone wants to give this a try I can explain it and how 
to interpret the waveform.

   Dave WX7G