Topband: 2 wire reversible Beverage

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I followed the instructions on the W0BTU website, which gave me all the 
information I needed to set up three, two-wire Beverages here.

I found the easiest wire to work with for the baluns is what I stripped out 
of two-pair indoor telephone wire. It has four colours PVC insulation on 
thin solid copper wire, so there is no issue identifying which winding is 
which! The advantage of the thin PVC insulated wire is both ease of 
identification and little risk of nicking the insulation as it passes 
through the (conductive) ferrite cores.

For the Beverage wires, I used 3.0 mm heavy galvanised high-tensile steel 
fencing wire. A 1500 m (nearly a mile) coil plus a bit did the job. Spacing 
is about 40 mm (about 1.5"). All the hardware is electric fence stuff, I 
bought at the local (rural) hardware store.

73,

Luke VK3HJ

-----Original Message----- 
From: Fred Moeves
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 7:29 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: 2 wire reversible Beverage

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to figure out how to wind the transformers for the 2 wire
Beverage.
I have ordered some WD1A wire and will be trying to use that.