On 6/20/2012 9:40 AM, ZR wrote: > Mine are installed thru the woods and I spent considerable time trimming out > low growth plus interfering branches.
Mine are also DXE twinlead in a dense redwood forest with rather irregular terrain, and go through a lot of brush and scrub trees. When I installed them about five years ago, I used electric fence post stand-offs on trees, but after a few years most had fallen off or the twinlead had separated from the standoff. For several years, my Beverages have been supported by the brush and branches of low trees. They work. A year or so ago, I helped string a single wire Beverage along a dirt road in Bonnaire, again supporting it on the scrub trees and brush. it worked fine. Bottom line -- Beverages don't have to be ideal to work. What DOES matter is keeping common mode noise out of it, and also off of the feedline. That means a decent transformer and ferrite chokes formed by winding at least 14 turns of the coax around a #31 toroid. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK