[TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna

[Patrick Greenlee]

Sorry , David, but I don't understand. You say in-efficient at low 
height and then say higher from ground and it looses Beverage action and 
becomes more of just a long nwire antenna.  I'm not being a language 
lawyer here, just trying to understand what you mean. I know very little 
about Beverage antennas and need to learn.

Patrick    NJ5G

On 1/31/2015 6:08 AM, David Robbins wrote:
> The low height keeps it in-efficient... that is one of the keys to
> Beverages, they need the ground to do what they do best.  If you get it too
> high it will act more like a plain long wire and will be directional but
> will pick up more noise.
>
> Also note that longer is not always better, 2 to 3 wavelengths is about as
> long as you want to go, beyond that it starts to get too lossy.   So if you
> get them 1 wavelength on 160m which is about the minimum then they are too
> long to be very good on 40m.
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 03:24
> To: Towertalk
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage Antenna
>
> With a few hundred thousand acres of National Forest behind me I have the
> opportunity to put up an almost unlimited length Beverage ranging from about
> 10 degrees through 170 degrees (basically easterly). My concern is what
> several have expressed, some animal pulling down wire with whatever.  Here
> it is elk and deer that is my concern. The elk can make my S acre look like
> the receiving end of an artillary barrage.  What is the height limit for a
> Beverage - in short, can I put it at a height that clears the elk racks and
> still have it be efficient? I ask because 1) I've not done a lot of
> sleuthing or reading yet on Beverage's and 2) it seems like most of the
> dialogue revolves around low heights use.
>
> Hope to learn more about this antenna from this thread.
>
> Don W7WLL
>
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