[TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

[Doug Turnbull]

Hi Stan,
    Yes of course you are right and so too was VE7RF to whom I apologize
with a red face.   The comment though about also wanting to use the Beverage
for 80/40 though is still valid; I hope.
                   73 Doug EI2CN

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Stockton [mailto:wa5rtg at gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 February 2015 11:24
To: Doug Turnbull
Cc: Jim Thomson; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

Doug,

Thanks for the contact in 160m Contest.  I was ZF2DX that weekend.

.05 = 1/20 but VE7RF, for some reason, calculated a half wavelength instead
of a wavelength and then divided by 10 instead of 20, so his end number is
correct.  Whether .05 wavelength height works well or not, for practicality
I can't imagine anyone putting up a Beverage that is 500-1000 feet long and
having it up 25 feet or so when it is likely to work better at a practical
height of 6-8 feet.

73...Stan, K5GO

Sent from my iPad

> On Feb 2, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Doug Turnbull <turnbull at net1.ie> wrote:
> 
> Dear OMs,
>   Another point to consider is that while 13 feet might be okay for 160M,
> it is too high for 80 and 40 meters.  
>                  73 Doug EI2CN
> 
> 0.05 = 1/20 
> 
> 
> ## JI claims that max beverage  height should be .05 wavelength. 
> That implies 26.86 feet.   492 / 1.832 =  268.55 feet. 
> 268.55 /  10 =   26.86 feet. 
> 
> ##  It would be interesting to know  if you could use an existing 
> 6 ft tall fence line and strap a 8-15 ft tall pvc tube  to each
> wooden fence post.   At that height, it would be a bitch to install
> the beverage wire.  An orchard ladder might work. 
> 
> Jim   VE7RF  
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