Topband: "New beverage"

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Good quality flooded RG-6 laying on the ground (BOG) might be an easy 
install like before contests at some locations.  However I have no idea 
on how this would perform compared to an elevated version.  If the 
directivety  is maintained and the S/N ratio is still usable then such a 
concept would be worth considering.  Such an installation might also be 
considered for DX-peditions where supports for a normal Beverage are 
just not available. Even for a short term use a normal consumer grade 
1000 foot roll of RG-6 is competitive with the same amount of #12 or 14 
THNN and certainly more competitive than 1000' of higher grade ladder 
line. It is nice however having a vendor who offers a unique of the 
shelf solution and it would nice to get some feedback on A/B checks with 
the conventional Beverage.

Herb, KV4FZ




On 5/16/2013 1:57 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
>> 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.
> All good topband ops know how to put up a beverage at night.
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