[TowerTalk] Rapid-Deployment Beverage?

[Gene Smar]

Or Yuengling.  [YENG-ling.]

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


On 12/23/2021 4:26 PM, John Kemker wrote:
> Nah.  Shiner Bock.
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 4:12 PM Edward Mccann via TowerTalk <
> towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking that the Rapid Deployment Beverage of choice would be a
>> couple cases of Coor’s.
>>
>> Ed McCann
>> AG6CX
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Dec 23, 2021, at 12:42 PM, Kirk Kleinschmidt via TowerTalk <
>> towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, gang,
>>> Thinking about Beverage ant possibilities...and I have a single day --
>> 12-24-21 -- on which to do the bulk of whatever has to be done. One more
>> day of 40-degree WX, then into the deep freeze...
>>> Along the shared border, my neighbor has a 300-400 foot run of
>> no-longer-used barbed wire fence (with lotsa discontinuities) made from the
>> usual T-posts.
>>> Can I add a wire (or two) to the top of the post? That would put the
>> wire about 40 inches above ground, and I could probably use inexpensive
>> "snap on" T-post wire insulators.
>>> Would it be better to add 1-2 feet of "extension dowels" to the post
>> tops? More time and expense for a rapid-deployment Beverage?
>>> The fence line runs NE-SW, and I can connect coax to the NE end, or I
>> can "intercept" the fence line at 1/3 of the run (referenced to the NE end).
>>> Ground is frozen here, so ground rods are impossible (maybe just
>> difficult if a drill and a BFH are used!), but I can lay down a couple
>> radials "in line" with the fence/Beverage, and I could lay down a "mat"
>> made from galvanized chicken wire until Spring on "my side" of the fence.
>>> To get bidirectional performance I would need two wires, right? And if
>> so, do those wires need to be side by side, or would an "over/under"
>> arrangement work? How much separation is required?
>>> I would run the wires and handle the radials now so I could build a coax
>> / transformer  connector box (indoors) that I could install in a few days,
>> when the WX will be "real winter."
>>> Or, just wait until Spring?
>>> Thanks :)
>>> --Kirk, NT0Z
>>>
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>> www.stealthamateur.com and on the Amazon Kindle (soon)
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