[TowerTalk] Re: TopBand: Re: Sloped Beverage Terminations

[Tom Osborne]

lew@teleport.com wrote:

>     2) You can put 100 ferrite beads, like FB-73-2401 from Amidon over a
> short hunk of RG58 between the Beverage box and the run of coax to the
> shack. This can be done later to spiff the pattern if you so desire.
>     3) Keep the coax run going back to the shack on the ground. If you put
> it up in the air. it'll act like a Beverage too screwing everything up.

Hi all.  I was wondering, on most of the posts on the beverages, the main 
thing seems to be to get it to work in a desired direction.  If a person 
only has one beverage to put up, does it really matter if it picks up off 
the side, or the rear.  If I put one up to EU from Coos Bay, OR  chances 
are I'm not going to hear much on it as there are not that many signals 
from EU here.  I would also like to listen for KH6's, JA's PY's on it.  
Is there any one good beverage for all directions, or does that ruin the 
purpose of the antenna. 73
Tom W7WHY

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