Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??

[Filipe Lopes]

Hi guys

any other suggestion?

Maybe this is the reason why my EU direction bevs never worked fine... the
ground rods are about 40cm from each other.
What about using 1 radial in each direction attached to each ground rod?


73's Filipe Lopes
CT1ILT - CR6K
F4VPX - TM3M

2016-03-22 16:21 GMT+01:00 Filipe Lopes <ct1ilt at gmail.com>:

> Hi Don,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> My bev system has 3 bevs starting from the same point, 330º , 0º and 45º.
>
> I understand what you mean but unfortunately I think the relays are not a
> good solution for me because imagine I am doing SO2R, R1 on 160m using 45º
> bev and R2 on 80m using 330º bev. This means 2 bevs from the same point
> will be used, meaning 2 relays will be on...
>
>
>
> 73's Filipe Lopes
> CT1ILT - CR6K
> F4VPX - TM3M
>
> 2016-03-22 16:12 GMT+01:00 <donovanf at starpower.net>:
>
>> Hi Felipe,
>>
>> As W4ZV noted in his posting, three meter ground rod spacing was
>> not enough when he  brought multiple Beverages to a common point.
>>
>> A much better solution is to use inexpensive hermetically sealed
>> relays to connect only the selected Beverage to a single ground rod.
>>
>> 73
>> Frank
>> W3LPL
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Filipe Lopes" <ct1ilt at gmail.com>
>> *To: *"k1fz" <k1fz at myfairpoint.net>, "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:17:51 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
>>
>>
>> what about 7 ground rods 20cm apart, will it do ?
>>
>>
>> 73's Filipe Lopes
>> CT1ILT - CR6K
>> F4VPX - TM3M
>>
>> 2016-03-22 14:09 GMT+01:00 K1FZ-Bruce <k1fz at myfairpoint.net>:
>>
>> >
>> > ----- Forwarded message from K1FZ-Bruce  -----
>> >
>> > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:04:06 -0400
>> > From: K1FZ-Bruce
>> > Reply-To: k1fz at myfairpoint.net
>> > Subject: Topband: Fwd: Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
>> > To: Topband
>> >
>> > I agree. We have been thinking of switching  at the coax cable location.
>> > Will need to correct my Beverage notes page.
>> >
>> > The W4ZV and W3LPL method will work.
>> >
>> > 73
>> > Bruce-K1FZ
>> >
>> > www.qsl.net/k1fzbeverage_antenna.html
>> >
>> > http://www,qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Forwarded message from Bill Tippett -----
>> >
>> > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:19:48 -0400
>> > From: Bill Tippett
>> > Reply-To: Bill Tippett
>> > Subject: Re: Topband: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages??
>> > To: topband
>> >
>> > W3LPL:
>> >
>> > >Another solution is to use
>> > relays to connect only the selected Beverage to the ground rod
>> > and disconnect the other seven.
>> >
>> > I've done this for 31 years from 3 different locations with no problems.
>> > From a 2011 post on this subject:
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