with a two wire balanced feed and reflection transformers, etc, it will end
up behaving as separate beverages, mostly, - if all the energy paths and
phases are attended to, it could work, but might get a bit messy to keep in
balance-- but it will act like a beverage (a pair of beverages), and any
beverage is better than no beverage.
Build it and see, Obviously your package is working for you. Never the
less, a center fed single wire beverage center "dipole fed" with the ends
terminated should not function like a beverage- although it might work like
a bi-directional beverage, if the termination's are anywhere near the right
values to avoid reflections, and the resulting cancellation.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor A. Kean, Jr." <vkean@k1lt.com>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 06:57
Subject: Re: Topband: Fw: The 500 Foot Beverage
> On Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:25:36 pm Robin wrote:
>> that makes a dipole not a beverage. A Beverage MUST be fed at the end.
>
> I beg to differ. All 6 of my two-wire Beverages are center fed.
> Assuming
> ASCII art works (use a fixed font) this is the feed:
>
> ____ ____
> ) (
> ) (
> )______(
> ) (
> ) (
> ___) (____
>
> ___ ___
> ) (
> ___) (___
>
> Where the wires at the top are left and right two wire Beverages, and the
> wires at the bottom are the feedlines.
>
> Both ends of each Beverage have reflection transformers, or more cheaply,
> one grounded and one open wire.
>
> Victor, K1LT
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