Topband: Beverages

[Joshua M. Arritt]

k3bu at optimum.net wrote:
> I have seen situations when long Bev (1600') on a sloping terrain was worse to Eu than Inv Vee. When shortened to about 600' it was a "killer".
> Then long phased Bev at W8LRL were hearing JAs while short ones were "dead". 
> Makes big difference in a contest. 
>  
>   

This inspires me to a (perhaps under-educated) pitch for exploration of 
a novel antenna:  An Adaptive Elevation Angle MEMS Beverage.

 
Seriously, I wonder what challenges would be realized in trying to use a 
set of mechanical relays to incrementally lengthen or shorten a Beverage 
to sweep elevation angle, albeit while distorting F/B and beamwidth....  
I'd certainly purchase the journal that published such a paper.




 73,
 
    - Josh / KF4YLM