Topband: One wavelength Beverage

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Tom Rauch wrote:

>There is no reason not to use insulated wire except for weight, and no
>special reason to use it.
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>73 Tom
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I can think of one good reason to use insulated wire such as in a quick 
BOG installation such as used in contests and dxpeditions.  This is the 
practice of running out 500 to 1000 feet of wire just laying on the 
ground, terminated or unterminated.  This is also especially important 
were large fields containing  cows and horses that would render a good 
beverages useless in short order unless it had high enough supports. 

Although a BOG installation is not as efficient as the 8 to 10 foot 
elevated beverage they do work well and sometimes make the difference 
between having something or nothing except the TX antenna for 
receiving.  In short my advice is to keep several rolls of insulated #14 
stranded electrical house wire around in the event you need some thing 
up quickly.

73

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ

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