Topband: Beverages

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

Is Europe due east of your QTH?

The most critical factor in Beverage placement is to aim the wire in the 
desired direction of reception (or to null out noise in a particular 
direction).

As for length, I have found benefits with wires as short as a quarter 
wave and as low as a foot off the ground. But the longer ones generally 
do better.

73/Jon AA1K
www.aa1k.us

On 7/11/2010 11:49 AM, Dave Harmon wrote:
> Haha..right Charlie!
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> Right now I'm planning on between 360' to 480'...I think I can get it that
> far.
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> I have 10 acres with no trees..check Google earth..
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> I'm planning on running it E/W with the E end terminated to the S of the
> house.
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> I'll probably have to auger holes in the ground and place short PVC pipes in
> the holes
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> then slip fit a smaller PVC pipe into them to hold up the antenna.
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> At least that's the plan right now.
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> This should work great to Europe.
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> Regards
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> Dave Harmon
> K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
> Sperry, Ok.
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> -----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
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> K6XYZ said:
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>> 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....
>>      
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 73 Charlie N8RR
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