I had 1300 ft Beverage running down the hill, it sucked (not signals).
Inv Vee was beating it.
I cut it in half and second night in the contest it worked well, beating
Inv Vee on DX signals.
It looks like in the direction of the slope on a hill, the pattern,
reception cone is forced to lower ang
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Beverage in a slope
I am planning to install a second 180m (590 feet) long reversible Beverage
in the next months to cover the NW-SE directions, but due to terrain
restrictions of my property it will have to be installed in a slope. The
feed would be
GabrielYou will be presently surprise how well that works. You might
even get some enhance FB out of it.
I had such a sloping Beverage almost exactly like described on EU
running downhill and with a 100 foot drop
from previous location here on St. Croix and it was superb.
Herb, KV4FZ
I am planning to install a second 180m (590 feet) long reversible Beverage
in the next months to cover the NW-SE directions, but due to terrain
restrictions of my property it will have to be installed in a slope. The
feed would be near the top of hill and the Beverage would slope down, being
the f