On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:15:44PM -0700, Jim Brown wrote:
> My new QTH is 8.5 acres in a mountainous area. I'm at 2,000 ft, with
> a 200 ft ridge above me beginning a bit west of north (i.e., about
> 330 degrees) and continuing to about 160 degrees) (on the order of
> 1/4 mile to 1/2 mile away). Any Beverage that I install will need to
> traverse one or more ravines with slopes of 45 degrees or more (up
> and down). Is this something worth trying, or should I look to EWE
> and similar antennas instead? If I do install Beverages, do I want
> to follow the slope of the ground (that is, maintain a constant
> distance from the ground), or do I run them in a straight line?
While I don't have terrain quite that steep - I do have some beverages
going along the sides of a prety steep ravine. They go down perhaps
100 feet over a distance of about 500 feet - with one end essentially
at the bottom of the ravine. They work surpisingly well.
Tree N6TR
tree@kkn.net
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