Topband: "New beverage"

[Tom W8JI]

> After looking at their literature it appears to me that this is nothing 
> more then two beverages, one in each direction, with the "feed unit" 
> being, perhaps,  a couple relays. I don't see the merit in using RG6 as 
> the beverage wire: its heavy, will need more supports, and compared to 
> other solutions, perhaps more expensive. And the fact that the feed unit 
> can be placed anywhere along the antenna? I must be missing something 
> clever because all that would seem to do is make one direction's wire 
> longer and the other shorter?

Since the antenna is a transmission line, with suitable end and center 
transformers, the feedpoint can be placed anywhere and the full length used.

With different transformers, any reasonable type of transmission line can be 
used.