Topband: New Beverage Antenna...

[Ed Swynar]

Well, I spent the morning yesterday uncoiling 600-feet of wire through the bush & thicket in the back yard, a-la-beverage-antenna style...

This one averages about 8-feet high, runs north-south, & is unterminated. 

The FIRST thing I had to do was dig up an old antenna grounding relay from when I had the 1200-footer, for benefit of the Icom 751A---the ungrounded auxilliary antenna port with this rig is USELESS with a long receiving aerial...even with the thing running barefoot! The RF feedback makes the rig completely & utterly unusable as a transmitter.

The relay box grounds the antenna terminal on transmit, & is activated by the PTT / 13.8 VDC terminals at the back of the rig.

Now we'll just listen, and wait...and wait...and listen some more!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ