[TowerTalk] Beverages and verticals

Joe Giacobello, K2XX k2xx at swva.net
Sun Mar 19 12:23:11 EDT 2017


Many years ago, when I put a similar question to the Top Band forum, I 
was told by several respondents that running a Beverage down a hill had 
little effect on its performance.  FWIW.

73, Joe
K2XX

Jim Brown wrote:
>> The NE/SW run will be running pretty evenly downhill and will drop 
>> from around 1150 feet to around 1000 feet above sea level.  While 
>> this is great for a Yagi, how will it affect the Beverage going 
>> downhill?  Conversely, how will the rise of 150 feet affect the 
>> Beverage in the opposite direction?
>
> Mine are bi-directional and terminate into a rise in one direction, 
> more or less flat in the other. Since I have no reference it's hard to 
> say whether that matters.


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