Topband: 160M Beverage antenna help requested

[David J. Schmocker]

Jim:
In my experience using reversible beverages, 

The W1WCR guide is a great reference and help.  I followed it closely. 

You want the beverage height above ground to be just above local obstacles (deer, snowmobiles, car traffic, whatever is in the path you traverse).   I used 10' PVC pipes stood  on end as my supports with my reversible bev. wires at 9' and 10' above ground respectively. 
I sloped only the last span on each end of mine down to ground to mitigate deer problems.  On the rare occasions when they ran through the ends, I just repaired the wires (easy to detect from testing the beverages). 
If you don't slope them down, how do you plan to ground the end termination point?  

I don't know what is window line, but electric fence wire (steel) available at farm supply stores is very rugged, inexpensive, has great tensile strength, is re-useable year after year, and works great. 

Kind regards, 73

Dave KJ9I



On 8Nov, 2011, at 2:56 PM, wa3mej at comcast.net wrote:

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> Good afternoon to ALL! 
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> I am getting ready to put up a beverage for top band.  I have decided that I want to put up a two wire system 
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> using window line because of the ease of assembly.  I am not sure if I will use it in the null steering mode 
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> or just switch from front to back. I will decide that after I get it up. 
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> After reading the original W1CWR handbook, a book written by K3OQF and several articles by Beverage 
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> himself (as well as other references to include much written by W3LPL and W8JI) and tempering it with 
> my site requirements I have pretty much decided to put it up 7-8 ft in the air. BUT... I have several questions. 
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> 1. Is there an optimum height above the ground? 
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> 2, Can I get away with not sloping the ends toward the ground? (the deer are heavy around here) 
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> 3. I have 491 ft of window line should I just put that up or should I order another 100ft and splice 
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> it together? 
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> 4. What other suggestions do the readers have? 
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> Thanks 
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> Jim WAMEJ 
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