Topband: RE: 2-Wire Beverage Termination

[Jeff Maass]

Topbanders:

I posted the inquiry below, about whether the reflection
transformer in a 2-wire Beverage installation is 
best mounted off the ground with a ground wire dropping 
straight down or on the ground with the two wires of the
Beverage running straight up to the transformer six feet 
high. 

I've heard from an "always reliable source" that 'It Just
Doesn't Matter' which of the two arrangements cited below 
are used.

Just use whichever makes the most mechanical sense in your
installation! I'm going to put mine up.

73,

Jeff Maass  K8ND



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Maass [mailto:jmaass at columbus.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:17 PM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: 2-Wire Beverage Termination
> 
> 
> 
> OK, for a single-wire Beverage I realize that sloping
> the ends down over the last 60+ feet of the Beverage
> is no improvement over dropping them straight down.
> 
> For a 2-wire Beverage, which is preferred?
> 
>   1) Putting the reflection transformer up in
>      the air and running the ground wire straight
>      down to the ground rod(s) (~ 6.5 feed); or
> 
>   2) Running the two wires at the end of the Beverage
>       straight down (~6.5 feet) to the reflection 
>       transformer, with the ground rods nearby.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jeff Maass  K8ND
> 
>