Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

[Jeremy Maris]

Same here, 570’ W/E  with 80ft drop and ~8ft high in a hedge works well in both directions.

Jeremy G3XDK


> On 2 Aug 2023, at 21:37, Tree <tree at kkn.net> wrote:
> 
> My E/W Beverate (bi directional - brute force - transformers on each end
> and two feedlines) has probably a 75 foot drop from one end to the other.
> Works fine uphill.
> 
> Tree N6TR
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:51 AM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/2/2023 11:11 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
>>> Am I correct in assuming that Beverage wires sloping downward from the
>> feed
>>> point to the termination will work better than ones that slope upward?
>> 
>> My Beverages are over terrain that starts high, slopes down nearly 100
>> ft to a creek, then back up to the elevation where they started. They
>> roughly follow that terrain, but one is about 15 ft high where it goes
>> over the creek.  They both work fine, only issue is noise from solar
>> systems in neighbor homes.
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>> 
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