[TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

[Patrick Greenlee]

Jim, I also wonder if a Beverage installed above and parallel to a 
barbed wire fence will work OK.  For all I know (infinitely close to 
zero about Beverages prior to this thread) it could help, hinder, or 
just not matter.

If having the beverage a foot above other wires in parallel (other 
strands of barbed wire) will work OK then I can reinstall the top strand 
of barbed wire with a companion antenna wire (I assume perhaps 
erroneously that a pair of parallel 11 ga steel wires are not acceptable 
for the beverage) on electric fence plastic stand-off insulators that 
snap onto T-posts quite easily.

A Beverage can be installed as low as on the ground so maybe having a 
grounded conductor a foot or so below and parallel to the Beverage is 
not a bad thing.  Any of you EE types or RF gurus care to explain this 
situation to us?  There is a root-beer float in it for the first to 
cover the topic well.  (Decisions of the judges is final as to topic 
coverage.  Judges are myself and any two like minded posters on TT)

Alternatively we can vote on it.  All acceptable ballots will be marked 
on a US $5.00 bill and mailed postage paid to: my QSL address on QRZ.com

Patrick     NJ5G


On 2/2/2015 4:50 AM, Doug Turnbull 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
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> ## 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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