Hi Mike,
If you must use a single ground rod for multiple Beverages, the ONLY active connections to the ground rod should be the connections to the selected Beverage. All other connections to that ground rod should be disconnected. You should use only hermetically sealed relays f or outdoor use on receiving antennas 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Cizek W0VTT" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:14:15 PM Subject: Re: Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages?? If using this method for a pair of two- wire beverages, all FOUR ground wires would need to be switched individually, not 2 and 2? Will simple SPST relays work or do they need to be RF rated? Thank you. -- 73, Mike Cizek WØVTT -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of K1FZ-Bruce Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 08:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages?? ----- Forwarded message from K1FZ-Bruce ----- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:04:06 -0400 From: K1FZ-Bruce Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Topband: Fwd: Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages?? To: Topband I agree. We have been thinking of switching at the coax cable location. Will need to correct my Beverage notes page. The W4ZV and W3LPL method will work. 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fzbeverage_antenna.html http://www,qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html ----- Forwarded message from Bill Tippett ----- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:19:48 -0400 From: Bill Tippett Reply-To: Bill Tippett Subject: Re: Topband: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages?? To: topband W3LPL: >Another solution is to use relays to connect only the selected Beverage to the ground rod and disconnect the other seven. I've done this for 31 years from 3 different locations with no problems. From a 2011 post on this subject: _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
