Topband: BEVERAGE TERMINATION NEAR POWER LINE

[Paul Kelley N1BUG]

Mr. and Mrs. Magoo wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago someone posted a query regarding terminating a 
> Beverage under or very near a power line as opposed to keeping the 
> termination back some distance.  I don't recall seeing any responses to this 
> query and wonder what distance, if any, responders had found to be 
> desireable in keeping power line noise out of the antenna.

Bill,

Due to space constraints my northeast Beverage is terminated about 
20 feet short of being directly under a power line. Actually it is 
two power lines, one 13.2 kV and the other 46 kV. Performance of the 
Beverage seems about what it should be for its length (500 feet), 
and under normal circumstances I get no power line noise on it.

There was an exception to "normal circumstances" last winter, 
involving a problem on the 46 kV line some 6 miles or more from my 
station... but that wiped out all reception on all antennas, not 
just the one terminated near a power line.

73,
Paul N1BUG