Topband: 2 wire beverage question

[Mike Waters]

Rick,

Why don't you just mount them on permanent posts (or trees) 10' high?
That's what I and many others do. That ought to let you mow around them
without taking them down. My support posts are 100' apart.

Two 10' high 14 AWG wires spaced 12" would have an impedance of 710 ohms.
The impedance of both wires to ground would be 316 ohms. Consider that when
you are making your 3 matching transformers.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Rick Karlquist <richard at karlquist.com>wrote:

> I think I might like to try some reversible beverages, but I would like
> them to be made so I can easily roll up the wire on a spool to do mowing,
> etc.  I currently use 19 gauge aluminum electric fence wire on 3 foot high
> plastic electric fence insulators with a spike on the bottom.  I space the
> supports every 50 feet.  I step on them to put the spike into the ground.
> This is very convenient for me.  Can I just put up two of these side by
> side a foot apart and have a differential impedance of around 600 ohms?
>
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