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Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Beverage
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:45:36 -0700
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On Fri,3/17/2017 4:05 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
Even with insulated wire which most of us use?

I first rigged my Beverages with electric fence post insulators. Within a few years, only a few insulators still held the Beverages in position. Insulators fell off, the 400 ohm twin-lead fell off the insulators, etc. The Beverages mostly lie over high brush and a few tree limbs, and are held up in some places by the PVC pipe over rebar. They've been in place nearly 10 years now. Every few years a limb, branch, or even a tree falls on one of them. A couple of times it's pulled the Beverage wire off the termination box. Most of the time it just causes it to droop a lot.

No, insulators are NOT required where the wire contacts a tree. Night before last, one of them heard 5U5R well enough for me to work them from near San Francisco.

73, Jim K9YC

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