Colleagues,
On the strength of Jon's report below and several before and since,
please QRX with the survey until this glitch is ironed out. (The several
entries to the site before release were smooth, including mine, so this
is an unwelcome surprise. Never happened to me before during my
engin
My TS-940 has the same setup but not the TS-950SD and many other rigs. I use
a toggle switch an high isolation DIP relay to do the control, under $5 in
parts.
Carl
KM1H
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From: "Rik van Riel"
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: What are
W1KM found that out as they didnt work at all stretched over a saltwater
marsh out on his Cape Cod contest station
A Beverage needs a relatively poor ground to slow down and tilt the incoming
wave.
On my extra poor ground rock pile Im amazed at how well they work once I
understood the nuances
At 02:49 22/04/2011, Garry Shapiro wrote:
>The survey is up at http://topband2011.semdxa.org and I encourage
>you to take a look---and to submit your needs.
Gary,
There's another way - Club Log. Club Log automatically analyses all
logs in it's database to produce most wanted lists. You can fi
I like your definite answer: It Depends! Truly!
It unfortunately seems a bit complex to make a rule other than build it and
see! Your
experiences match what I would expect, but there seems to be more at work than
just
distance to seawater. I built several unsuccessful beverages in Yangon ne
It depends.. I think George describes the situations well.
What I have experienced, say at VE1ZZ: Jack has Eu Beverages, short, long,
phased.
He is on the rocky ground, close to salt water bay.
The best Beverage (most of the time) was the long one, going over rocky terrain
and terminated i
On 4/21/2011 11:36 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> I was reading ON4UN's Low Band DXing Book and ran across a comment he
> made about beverages not working near the ocean and the Heard Is folks
> could never get one working. I know we used one from V47 and it worked
> great. It was located probab
Well base loading should be better then linear loading, lower
losses. However the base loading LC network has to have low Q
or at least "decent" Q.
Once I had my 160 vertical linear loaded, it was a 90 foot
radiator. I did measure the difference between linear loading
and base LC network loading.
Mike,
It is not that they are near an ocean. It is if the conductivity of the
salt water is near enough under the beverage element such that the salt
water (or salted earth ie. salt marsh) is acting as the other conductor of
the "twin lead" transmission line (the Bev wire is one conductor in t
I think it is high ground conductivity that is often true of soil near the
ocean, not the ocean per se.
73 John N5CQ
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From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Mike Fatchett W0MU
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:37 AM
To:
I think BCB DXers have used them on the coast many times with great results.
From what I recall about beverage antenna theory, there may be a problem if the
earth underneath is too highly conductive -- i.e., if the antenna is laid out
over a salt marsh.
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:36:33 -06
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:01:35 -0700
"Robin" wrote:
> I like your definite answer: It Depends! Truly!
>
> It unfortunately seems a bit complex to make a rule
>other than build it and see! Your experiences match what
>I would expect, but there seems to be more at work than
>just distance to s
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:36:33 -0600
Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> I was reading ON4UN's Low Band DXing Book beverages not >working near the
> ocean...
Mike,
Here is the definite answer: it depends.
I have built a number of Beverages near the sea, with
varying results. On VK9WWI (Willis Islets)
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