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Re: Topband: Beverages

To: W7lr@aol.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Beverages
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:31:27 -0700 (PDT)
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I have 3 beverages in a triangle, with switch boxes at
the vertices connected to 3 separate coax runs.
I can feed any beverage from either end, giving me
6 directions spaced 60 degrees.  I will mention
that I bought 12,000 feet of coax from a surplus dealer
for 2 cents a foot, so the coax for this system was
practically free.

Rick N6RK

W7lr@aol.com said:
> If your lot or field has the right orientation for a Beverage and if you
> have
> lots of coax, I have made a switchable 500 foot Beverage with one wire and
> lots of coax.  I run the RG58 to each end, and have switch boxes to swap
> the
> resistors and transformers.
> No problems with wire spacing, twisting in the wind, wire supports, two
> wire
> theory, etc.
> And it works fb.  73 Bob W7LR
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