Topband: Beverage wire question

[Tom W8JI]

> Is there any advantage to open wire line construction vs the bidirectional 
> coax Beverage that ON4UN describes?  RG6 is cheap and strong with a 
> copperweld core or use any other coax from CATV surplus to RG58/59.  Some 
> are UV resistant, flooded, etc. The only downside I see is two 
> transformers and two feedlines are required and perhaps a db or two loss 
> for the reverse direction, which really doesn't matter.  A plus is no 
> relays.  A coax version sure is simpler to build and maintain.  Of course 
> coax doesn't have the classic Beverage look ;-)

Anything that can be done with the house feedline on a regular two wire 
Beverage can be done using coax as an antenna element.

The coaxial line only affects the transformer construction at the Beverage 
ends, and the terminating resistor.