Re: [TowerTalk] Rapid-Deployment Beverage?

[Gene Smar via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>]

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@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@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
> > >
> > > My book, "Stealth Amateur Radio," is now available from
> > www.stealthamateur.com and on the Amazon Kindle (soon)
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