[TowerTalk] Beverage

Doug Turnbull turnbull at net1.ie
Fri Mar 17 17:02:02 EDT 2017


You can also obtain electric fence insulators with a screw end and put them
into your trees.   I have done this with good success.    Just take them out
when and if you remove your antenna to prevent them causing a problem with a
chainsaw.

                 73 Doug EI2CN

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: 17 March 2017 17:21
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage

Beverages don't have to be perfect to work, but they should at least be 
"sort of" straight.

An easy way to support them when there's no convenient support is to cut 
10 ft pieces of rebar into 5 ft lengths, shove them halfway into the 
ground, and slide lengths of 3/4-in PVC conduit over them. Drill 1/4-in 
holes in the top of the PVC and ty-wrap the Beverage wire to the PVC. 
It's also possible to simply lay the Beverage over high (or even low) 
brush.

73, Jim K9YC

On Fri,3/17/2017 10:03 AM, Russ Dearmore via TowerTalk wrote:
> I was wondering how much curve (if any) would I be able to get away with
when installing my beverage antenna.  I've 5 acres and there are good sized
oaks and pecan trees which are laid out somewhat in a question mark
configuration.   I could run the wire at about 10' high for a distance of
600'.


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