[TowerTalk] Beverages and Trees

[Barry Kutner]

Not having the luxury of woods, just a flat farm field, I use 10 ft, 1.5 
inch PVC pipe, cut a slit in the top with a hack saw, and use a 3 ft 
piece of rebar hammered into ground to hold it upright. For my NE 
Bev, which is about 600 ft, only need 2 PVC pipes, with tower on 
one end and a tree (yes we have a few) on the other.
73 Barry

On 8 Mar 00, at 18:12, alsopb wrote:

> 
> Guys,
> 
> I was re-reading the ON4UN Low Band antenna handbook and ran across a 
> statement I need more info on.  This quote is from the section titled"
> Location of the Beverage"
> 
> "Just as it is not recommended to put up vertically polarized antennas
> between tall trees, it is not a good idea to run a Beverage antenna
> through the woods"
> 
> Would somebody please explain this.  It was my impression that trees
> are fairly transparent to RF at lower frequencies.  What is the real
> effect and its magnitude? 
> 
> What about the practice carried out by some of using galvanized
> staples to attached galvanized wire bevrages to tree supports? I see
> that even ON4UN attaches beverages to bamboo poles.
> 
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
> 
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