Topband: 160M Beverage antenna help requested

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In the East we have trees and use electric fence insulators for support. No 
problems with window line or military telephone wire unless trees come down.

Window line is expensive these days and all my new 2 wire Beverages are 
using surplus Army telephone wire.

Had my first repair job last week after that early snow storm dropped a huge 
pine branch.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W0MU Mike Fatchett" <w0mu at w0mu.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 160M Beverage antenna help requested


> Great feedback!  I can see how the heavy 450 ohm stuff could easily ice
> up and become very heavy!  You guys keep all that ice back east!
>
> Mike W0MU
>
> J6M CQ WW DX CW Contest 2011
> J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011
> W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net
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>
> On 11/9/2011 7:28 AM, Jeff Woods wrote:
>> One cautionary note on using window line for beverages:
>>
>>
>> I tried window line last year, unsuccessfully, for a 2-wire 
>> bi-directional beverage.  While the electrical performance was 
>> satisfactory, the increased wind load area of the ladder line made it 
>> impossible to keep operational.  Initially, it broke free from the 
>> termination and feed points.  After several rounds of improvements on the 
>> connections, eventually the line itself broke.  This was the good stuff, 
>> too - heavier gauge stranded wire.
>>
>>
>> I'm out in the open plains of Iowa where the winds are strong and steady 
>> and the ice/snow load adds to the problem.  My normal beverages using 17 
>> ga. aluminum electric fence wire occasionally break, but it's infrequent 
>> enough to be tolerable.  The window line beverage needed to be repaired 
>> nearly every week until it was decommissioned for good.  In a more benign 
>> environment this type of construction can work.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>> Jeff - W0ODS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: "wa3mej at comcast.net"<wa3mej at comcast.net>
>>> To: topband at contesting.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 2:56 PM
>>> Subject: Topband: 160M Beverage antenna help requested
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Good afternoon to ALL!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> using window line because of the ease of assembly.  I am not sure if I 
>>> will use it in the null steering mode
>>>
>>> or just switch from front to back. I will decide that after I get it up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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