Topband: Beverage F/B using oscillator

Ashraf Chaabane ash.kf5eyy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 09:23:05 EDT 2018


Greg,

I re-did the exercise at 470m distance from both ends of the beverage 
and the F/B has increased to 7db. I was tired to go further in a VERY 
muddy ground but I will test again at near-field edge (around 840m) when 
it gets drier.

Thanks

73 Ash 3V8SF
www.kf5eyy.info

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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 22:57:54 +1300
From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix at inet.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage F/B using oscillator
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Hi Ashraf,

The rule of thumb I use is 2D^2 /lambda, where D is the largest
dimension of the antenna. So if your Bev is 320m long you need to be
over a km away. If only 160m long you need to be 300 m away.

73, and I hope to work you one of these days at my SR.

Greg, ZL3IX


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