I have one single wire Beverage that was installed on the low brush 4-12" above the soil that worked well in a direction I had RFI from a neighbor. It is now under 4' of snow and ice and appears to work the same.
Carl KM1H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zivney, Terry L." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:05 PM Subject: Topband: using 2 wire beverage transformer for 1 wire beverage > Last week the weathermen predicted a major ice storm, so to minimize > potential damage to > my station, I lowered the ropes holding my 160m vertical wires and removed > the tension at > the ends of my KD9SV two wire beverages, letting all of this rest on the > brush. > > Now, these wires are buried under more than two inches of ice, and several > inches of snow > on top of the ice are going to hinder thawing for quite a while. > > In order to erect a couple of temporary beverage antennas, I want to use > the old standby > 14 gauge THHN house wire. I'd like to use the existing KD9SV two wire > beverage > transformers, because they are connected to the coaxes (also buried under > ice and > snow) that run to the remote relay box. > > I know that the remote end box of the KD9SV unit does not have a > termination, > that being provided by the feed end box connection to the remote switch > with its > bank of 75 ohm resistors on the unselected feedlines. > > Question: Can I simply attach a 470 ohm resistor between the far end of > the single wire > beverage and the ground rod, and then connect the feed end of the wire to > one of > the two antenna wire binding posts of the KD9SV box (leaving the other one > empty) > and expect reasonable performance? I want to minimize the effort on this > "temporary" > problem. > > Terry Zivney, N4TZ/9 > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
