Hello Frank Thank you for your email, just one more question.
Do you put the relay directly at each antenna wire or do you just connect the ground to a common point and you select and deselect the antenna you want to be connected to ground? 73s Filipe CT1ILT Sent from my Huawei Mate 8 Em 22/03/2016 4:12 p.m., <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hi Felipe, > > As W4ZV noted in his posting, three meter ground rod spacing was > not enough when he brought multiple Beverages to a common point. > > A much better solution is to use inexpensive hermetically sealed > relays to connect only the selected Beverage to a single ground rod. > > 73 > Frank > W3LPL > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Filipe Lopes" <[email protected]> > *To: *"k1fz" <[email protected]>, "topband" <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:17:51 PM > *Subject: *Re: Topband: : Re: 1 center point to ground all 8 beverages?? > > what about 7 ground rods 20cm apart, will it do ? > > > 73's Filipe Lopes > CT1ILT - CR6K > F4VPX - TM3M > > 2016-03-22 14:09 GMT+01:00 K1FZ-Bruce <[email protected]>: > > > > > ----- 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 > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > _________________ > > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
