I was thinking that the Rapid Deployment Beverage of choice would be a couple
cases of Coor’s.
Ed McCann
AG6CX
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> On Dec 23, 2021, at 12:42 PM, Kirk Kleinschmidt via TowerTalk
> <towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, gang,
> Thinking about Beverage ant possibilities...and I have a single day --
> 12-24-21 -- on which to do the bulk of whatever has to be done. One more day
> of 40-degree WX, then into the deep freeze...
> Along the shared border, my neighbor has a 300-400 foot run of no-longer-used
> barbed wire fence (with lotsa discontinuities) made from the usual T-posts.
> Can I add a wire (or two) to the top of the post? That would put the wire
> about 40 inches above ground, and I could probably use inexpensive "snap on"
> T-post wire insulators.
> Would it be better to add 1-2 feet of "extension dowels" to the post tops?
> More time and expense for a rapid-deployment Beverage?
>
> The fence line runs NE-SW, and I can connect coax to the NE end, or I can
> "intercept" the fence line at 1/3 of the run (referenced to the NE end).
> Ground is frozen here, so ground rods are impossible (maybe just difficult if
> a drill and a BFH are used!), but I can lay down a couple radials "in line"
> with the fence/Beverage, and I could lay down a "mat" made from galvanized
> chicken wire until Spring on "my side" of the fence.
> To get bidirectional performance I would need two wires, right? And if so, do
> those wires need to be side by side, or would an "over/under" arrangement
> work? How much separation is required?
> I would run the wires and handle the radials now so I could build a coax /
> transformer connector box (indoors) that I could install in a few days, when
> the WX will be "real winter."
>
> Or, just wait until Spring?
> Thanks :)
> --Kirk, NT0Z
>
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