Topband: Hillside Beverage Antenna

[zoltan.pitman at vodafone.com]

> Thanks, Bill, to you and all the others for such quick 
> replies.  I guess my
> description wasn't very clear, though, because the 40 degree 
> gradient I
> described slopes downward toward the northeast, not upward.  
> My lot is at
> the edge of a mountainside that slopes sharply up to the west 
> of me and more gently downward to the east of me.


I have some experience on that. Beverages simply do not work if the terrain
slopes under them regardless if you keep constant height or not. The steeper
it slopes (the bigger vertical drop is) the less useful they are. It will be
exactly as noisy as a dipole in the sky. 

Pennants or short verticals will perform there much better if mounted at the
edge of the cliff.

73,

zoli ha1ag