Topband: 2 Parallel Beverages

[Mike Waters]

There's just one possible issue about all this that is conspicuous by its
absence, as they say. At least in some installations, having feedlines
going to each end of the Beverage supports is going to require laying the
coax on the ground under nearly the entire length of the Beverage.

And that's not the best situation, as it has been shown that we really need
lossy earth under our Beverages for optimum results. Just look at all the
people who got disappointing results from following that bad advice Misek's
Beverage handbook about laying a wire on the ground underneath the
Beverage. Or the people who have unsuccessfully tried running a Beverage
across a field of buried radials, or where --unknown to them-- there was a
buried pipe, conductor, etc. under the antenna. It screws up the F/B ratio
and pattern, to some extent.

I am in favor of doing it all from one end; heck, all we need to do that is
just one more transformer. We have to build two anyway; why not just wind a
third one --the reflection transformer-- while we're at it?

It's simply not difficult at all to build a bi-directional Beverage fed
from one end. http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html clearly shows
both ways of doing it, either with or without remote relays.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com