Topband: Location of beverage close to 60 ft hill

[Mike Waters]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Tom McAlee <tom at klient.com> wrote:

>
> 1. Why the need to keep it 300' from the inverted L?  ...  My E/W
> Beverage, which runs within 100' of my 160m TX vertical ... It is worth
> noting that this antenna merely "passes by" one or more TX verticals within
> 100'; the feedpoint is several hundred feet from any TX vertical and
> doesn't line up with the base of any TX vertical in a targeted direction.
>

Nothing wrong at all with doing it like this. The way this Beverage was
installed, the fairly deep null off its side was likely pointing at the
vertical.

However, pointing a Beverage at a TX vertical --and having the Beverage end
close to it-- is asking for trouble.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com