Topband: Beverages

[Dave Harmon]

Haha..right Charlie!

 

Right now I'm planning on between 360' to 480'...I think I can get it that
far.

I have 10 acres with no trees..check Google earth..

I'm planning on running it E/W with the E end terminated to the S of the
house.

I'll probably have to auger holes in the ground and place short PVC pipes in
the holes 

then slip fit a smaller PVC pipe into them to hold up the antenna.

At least that's the plan right now.

This should work great to Europe.

 

Regards

Dave Harmon 
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Young [mailto:weeksmgr at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 10:38 AM
To: k6xyz at sbcglobal.net; topband at contesting.com
Subject: RE: Topband: Beverages

 


K6XYZ said:
 
> I would never have believed that I could hear what I can hear with just 2
> clip leads jammed into the antenna port of the receiver. It's amazing....
 
Well, it might take 4 clip leads to optimize performance  :-)  
 
Joking aside, with some folks questioning whether it is worthwhile to put up
a beverage wire substantially shorter than 1 wavelength on 160M, my
experience is that it was worthwhile to put up one 300' long to the south.
Nothing else that was installed at my place would allow me to hear the
weaker DX.  This includes 4 separate inverted L transmit antennas, 80 meter
verticals and dipoles, HF yagis, even a terminated rx loop. 
 
My xmit L's are installed in pairs, back to back, with one side fed while
the other acts as a parasitic reflector.  These are simple, non-optimized
antennas, with a couple of elevated radials on each one.  The radiating side
is situated at the cusp of the hilltop, with the ground sloping steeply off
in front of the antenna in the desired direction.  They exhibit, at times,
significant front to back ratio on receive.  However, they can't touch the
beverage wires for receiving the weak signals, even with the short
beverages. 
 
There is a length where the beverage wire will be too short to help, but I
don't know what that length is.  150' or 200'?     300' is my shortest
beverage antenna. 
 
73 Charlie N8RR  



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