Topband: beverage lobes

[k3bu at optonline.net]

> A couple of questions for the Beverage folks. Are the high angle 
> lobes a problem? 
> 

Depends on the propagation and prevailing angles. Sometimes the higher angles work, sometimes low angles prevail and the long Beverages do wonders. 
 
>Has anyone tried stagered Beverages to suppress the high angle lobes?

>   Dave WX7G
 
 Staggered Beverages narrow the horizontal lobe, to get low vertical lobes you need to go long beverages or long and stagerred, and down hill if possible. There are numerous installations using staggerd and phased Beverages. 

73 Yuri, K3BU