Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

2023-08-02 Thread Jeremy Maris
Same here, 570’ W/E with 80ft drop and ~8ft high in a hedge works well in both directions. Jeremy G3XDK > On 2 Aug 2023, at 21:37, Tree wrote: > > My E/W Beverate (bi directional - brute force - transformers on each end > and two feedlines) has probably a 75 foot drop from one end to the oth

Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

2023-08-02 Thread Tree
My E/W Beverate (bi directional - brute force - transformers on each end and two feedlines) has probably a 75 foot drop from one end to the other. Works fine uphill. Tree N6TR On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:51 AM Jim Brown wrote: > On 8/2/2023 11:11 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote: > > Am I correct in assumin

Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

2023-08-02 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/2/2023 11:11 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote: Am I correct in assuming that Beverage wires sloping downward from the feed point to the termination will work better than ones that slope upward? My Beverages are over terrain that starts high, slopes down nearly 100 ft to a creek, then back up to the

Topband: Beverage Antennas on Sloping Ground

2023-08-02 Thread Chuck Dietz
Am I correct in assuming that Beverage wires sloping downward from the feed point to the termination will work better than ones that slope upward? I have two places I would like to put bidirectional Beverages, but they are both on sloping ground. I’m wondering if it would be worth the effort to mak