Topband: Switching direction with Slinky Beverage

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Why not one rod and just switch the antenna wire between the resistor and 
transformer primary? The relay would be a SPDT at the antenna side. 
Whichever end is floating shouldnt have any effect. Place the second rod 
20-30' away and ground the feedline shield there and also decouple with 
ferrite at the antenna side of the rod.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Cowan" <gm0udlandrew at gmail.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: Topband: Switching direction with Slinky Beverage


> Hello All,
>
> Going to explain my plan and looking for input.
> Due to loosing access to land near my house I no longer have 4 x 170m
> beverages.
> So the plan is to have about 150ft with slinky's along the length and
> put a relay at each end before it slopes to the transformer/Resistor,
> last wooden post.
> The idea is to have 2 ground rods at each end spaced a few feet apart
> one with resistor and one with transformer wires going from each up to
> the relay mounted on the last
> wooden post. So idea being when both relays are energized that changes
> the direction.
> I have not tried the slinky beverage but willing to give it a go, its
> the switching that could be a problem maybe not enough isolation????
>
> Thanks for all the great info I have picked up on this list.
>
> Andrew  GM0UDL
>
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