[TowerTalk] Beverage in woods tip

[RICHARD BOYD]

At WP3R I was never completely satisfied with a 200' beverage we had (that's all the length we have to work with), in that it was crooked, wasn't a straight line.  So, I ran a second one, about 220'.  I found they worked almost identically.  So, a straight line or a little bit crooked may not make much, if any, difference.

Second, in trying to get the new beverage straight, and using existing trees, saplings, etc. for it, sometimes there wasn't a tree in quite the right place, which leads to having a crooked beverage, which is what I was trying to avoid.  I thought of something and it works.  Tie a rope between two nearby trees -- one on each side of the track you're trying to stick to.  Get the rope up, say, 8-10'.  Run your beverage over the rope.  By doing this you can get the beverage straight, even if there aren't trees on the beam heading you want -- as long as there are enough trees or other supports to the left and right of the heading you want.

It's a simple thing but I hadn't heard of it or thought of it before.  73 - Rich, KE3Q