Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 248, Issue 2

[Mamuka Kordzakhia]

 My Bi-directional Beverages are over terrain that starts high, slopes down nearly 100 ft to the ravine and works great to the both directions.
Thanks,
Mamuka 4L2M
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Today's Topics:

  1. Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground (Chuck Dietz)
  2. Re: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground (Jim Brown)
  3. Re: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground (Tree)
  4. Re: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground (Jeremy Maris)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:11:28 -0500
From: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck at gmail.com>
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Subject: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground
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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? I
have two places I would like to put bidirectional Beverages, but they are
both on sloping ground. I?m wondering if it would be worth the effort to
make them bidirectional or should I just go with unidirectional ones toward
the downslope direction? Soil is good and the slope would be about 10? or a
little less in the 500? or so lengths. They will be about 10? high so the
tractor will go under them. Quiet country local.

Thanks,

Chuck W5PR


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 11:51:34 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground
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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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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:37:53 -0700
From: Tree <tree at kkn.net>
To: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
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Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground
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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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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:15:57 +0100
From: Jeremy Maris <jeremy at maris.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground
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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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>> Reflector
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