Topband: Beverages inside a hedgerow?

Brad Rehm bradrehm at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 08:38:54 PST 2009


Colin,

Feeding your Beverage 600' from the shack should not be a problem.
Loss in most kinds of coax will be very low at lowband frequencies,
and it will be nothing like the negative gain figures you'll realize
from the Beverage itself.

The feed point of my Beverage is over 1000' from the shack, and I feed
it with RG-6 coax.  The preamp is in the shack so that I can easily
disconnect it during storms.  Most of the time, signals from the
Beverage are within 1 S-unit of the signal strengths I see on the
Inverted-L on 160.

The coax, of course, is buried in conduit.  Couldn't keep the horses,
goats, & donkeys away from it, when I hung it on the fence.

73,
Brad, KV5V


On 11/17/09, Colin Cook <col.kat at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi all
... the feed point will be about 600' from the shack. Is this too long for a
> beverage and is the feed point a little too far away?pe I'm not going over old ground and i apologise if i am.
> 73,
>  Colin, gm0vhr
>
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