At WP3R I was never completely satisfied with a 200' beverage we had (that's
all the length we have to work with), in that it was crooked, wasn't a straight
line. So, I ran a second one, about 220'. I found they worked almost
identically. So, a straight line or a little bit crooked may not make much, if
any, difference.
Second, in trying to get the new beverage straight, and using existing trees,
saplings, etc. for it, sometimes there wasn't a tree in quite the right place,
which leads to having a crooked beverage, which is what I was trying to avoid.
I thought of something and it works. Tie a rope between two nearby trees --
one on each side of the track you're trying to stick to. Get the rope up, say,
8-10'. Run your beverage over the rope. By doing this you can get the
beverage straight, even if there aren't trees on the beam heading you want --
as long as there are enough trees or other supports to the left and right of
the heading you want.
It's a simple thing but I hadn't heard of it or thought of it before. 73 -
Rich, KE3Q
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