I had 1300 ft Beverage running down the hill, it sucked (not signals).
Inv Vee was beating it.
I cut it in half and second night in the contest it worked well, beating
Inv Vee on DX signals.
It looks like in the direction of the slope on a hill, the pattern,
reception cone is forced to lower angles, and depending on situation,
that could be too low for given propagation.
The best thing is to experiment with various settings, ground
conditions, angle of slope, type of Beverage, propagation mode can make
it "play" in different ways.
600 ft long one should play well. In reverse direction, it would
probably have high angle pattern.
73 Yuri, K3BU.us
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:11 PM, Gabriel - EA6VQ wrote:
> I am planning to install a second 180m (590 feet) long reversible
Beverage
in the next months to cover the NW-SE directions, but due to terrain
restrictions of my property it will have to be installed in a slope.
The
feed would be near the top of hill and the Beverage would slope down,
being
the far end about 50m (160 feet) lower than the feed point.
Anyone has experience with a similar setup and how much it could
affect the
performance of the antenna? I assume that the vertical lobe will be
affected somehow, but...
73. Gabriel - EA6VQ
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