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Re: Topband: 2 wire beverage question

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Subject: Re: Topband: 2 wire beverage question
From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:55:25 +1300
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Hi Ken,

Not quite sure to which arrangement you refer, but back in my days as 
ZS5K, I built a single wire 2-way Bev, using 2 lengths of coax.  I did 
bias them though, and used the bias to feed a relay at each end, which 
switched between termination or feed.

Not quite the same as you mean I don't think, but it is quite simple, 
and obviates the need for 2 wires.

73, Greg, ZL3IX

On 2010-11-21 08:23, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
> Has anyone built a two wire beverage simply fed with two lengths of RG-6
> instead of the usual switching arrangement in the feed end box?  The
> arrangement appears in most of the literature since the earliest days, but I
> don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing it that way.  At this stage
> however, I've got more RG-6 than I have inclination to build a switch box,
> bias T, etc, plus the fact that I already have a switch box in the shack to
> take the two coaxes.  Advice appreciated.
>
> 73,
> Ken - K4XL
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