Topband: Beverage in a slope

Herbert Schoenbohm herbs at vitelcom.net
Tue Apr 11 15:00:54 EDT 2017


Gabriel....You will be presently surprise how well that works. You might 
even get some enhance FB out of it.


I had such a sloping Beverage almost exactly like described on EU 
running downhill and with a 100 foot drop

from previous location here on St. Croix and it was superb.

Herb, KV4FZ



On 4/11/2017 2:11 PM, Gabriel - EA6VQ wrote:
> I am planning to install a second 180m (590 feet) long reversible Beverage
> in the next months to cover the NW-SE directions, but due to terrain
> restrictions of my property it will have to be installed in a slope.  The
> feed would be near the top of hill and the Beverage would slope down, being
> the far end about 50m (160 feet) lower than the feed point.
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> Anyone has experience with a similar setup and how much it could affect the
> performance of the antenna?  I assume that the vertical lobe will be
> affected somehow, but...
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> 73. Gabriel - EA6VQ
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