Topband: Timor Leste report 3

[Dietmar Kasper]

New kid in town :-)
We have a new US beverage, did you find out last night ?
Beeing unhappy with the results so far I tested a new temporary beverage.
Thank you for your comments so far I read with interest. Sorry that I cannot answer to every individual mail.
The starter of experiment was one mail writing "a short beverage is better than no beverage".

So I put lots of 75 Ohms TV cable together to get out of the village, closest point is now 300 meter and the further end
of the beverage is about 450 meter. I did not want to use again days and days to cut a trail into the bushes.
I put up the antenna along the coast line, more or less US short path.
Beverages above good ground do not work, never over salt water. But this beverage is mounted parallel to the ocean line,
where the wet sand ends and the dry sand starts. It was just an experiment.

It seems experiment was successfull. Never worked so many US last night compared to the nights before.
The beverage is still ugly, quick and dirty only 2 feet above ground almost hanging down to the ground.
As one of the mail said I say  "better an ugly but working beverage outside village than a nice looking beverage inside village
with poor results."

Now up to the other beverages - EU and US longpath. Sorry we did all the hard work for almost nothing and have
to redesign the complete system. More to follow next nights

73 DXX

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