[TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

[Patrick Greenlee]

Is it OK to put a beverage along/on top of a barbed wire fence?  I was 
thinking of putting extensions on some of the "T" posts with the 
Beverage strung along the tops of those extensions.  I can make the 
extensions non conducting  fiberglass rods which could elevate the 
Beverage wire about 3 feet above the top wire of the 5 wire fence or 
about 7 ft above ground.  If needed I could extend the extensions and go 
higher.

About deer etc. tangling in antennas...  I had a previously undetected 
partial kink in a multi-strand antenna wire (270 ft Carolina Windom) 
which fell during a storm.  I was waiting for better weather to repair 
and rehang.  Meanwhile it disappeared, as in vanished without a trace 
with attached balun, choke, vertical 22 ft coax, end insulators etc.. 
The antenna was not visible from the nearest road (1/4 mile plus) so it 
wasn't a copper thief.  I suppose a deer or one of our Black Angus got 
tangled temporarily and who knows where it might have ended up.  That 
pasture was 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile and I again suppose if it was a deer it 
didn't make it over another fence dragging it.  I could find it quickly 
with my 6 ft wide brush cutter/mower but oh what a tangled mess.  Maybe 
when the weather is better I need to take a ride around that field or a 
hike with my metal detector.

What difference will it make to string a Beverage antenna parallel to 
and within a few feet of a barbed wire fence?

Patrick   NJ5G


On 1/30/2015 9:12 AM, David Robbins wrote:
> That does bring up one important thing about Beverages... most of them
> require regular maintenance.  Unless you are lucky enough to have them in an
> open field with no critters around they will get taken down by animals or
> broken trees.  On the plus side they do make good trails to walk dogs on,
> cross country ski around, hike along, etc.
>
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> David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> KD0Q-Glenn
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 14:55
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna
>
> Vertical drop at the ends routed down the end support (read tree) has the
> added advantage of being less of a target for passing deer. A 10 ft high
> beverage with vertical drop at the ends may, or may not, be optimum...  but
> better than one on the ground and drug all over the timber.
>
> 73, Glenn - KD0Q
>
> On 1/30/2015 08:27, Chuck Dietz wrote:
>> I think there is some disagreement about the necessity to slope the
>> ends to the ground as I used to do.  There was a discussion on here
>> about it. The intent of sloping then wire was to minimize the vertical
>> component which would pick up noise and signals from all directions.
>> I mulled it over and decided a sloping wire has the same vertical area
>> as a vertical wire, so I went with vertical at the ends and thus made the
> Beverage slightly longer.
>> Those more versed in the physics of it may correct me.
>>
>> Chuck W5PR
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Doug Turnbull <turnbull at net1.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> Hans and Pat
>>> This topic is always of interest.   The other possibility is Hi-Z circle
>>> eight and four square antennas.   I am always interested in garnering
>>> information of Beverages.   So maybe you will get a few good replies.
>>>
>>>              73 Doug EI2CN
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