Jim: In my experience using reversible beverages, The W1WCR guide is a great reference and help. I followed it closely.
You want the beverage height above ground to be just above local obstacles (deer, snowmobiles, car traffic, whatever is in the path you traverse). I used 10' PVC pipes stood on end as my supports with my reversible bev. wires at 9' and 10' above ground respectively. I sloped only the last span on each end of mine down to ground to mitigate deer problems. On the rare occasions when they ran through the ends, I just repaired the wires (easy to detect from testing the beverages). If you don't slope them down, how do you plan to ground the end termination point? I don't know what is window line, but electric fence wire (steel) available at farm supply stores is very rugged, inexpensive, has great tensile strength, is re-useable year after year, and works great. Kind regards, 73 Dave KJ9I On 8Nov, 2011, at 2:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Good afternoon to ALL! > > > > I am getting ready to put up a beverage for top band. I have decided that I > want to put up a two wire system > > using window line because of the ease of assembly. I am not sure if I will > use it in the null steering mode > > or just switch from front to back. I will decide that after I get it up. > > > > After reading the original W1CWR handbook, a book written by K3OQF and > several articles by Beverage > > himself (as well as other references to include much written by W3LPL and > W8JI) and tempering it with > my site requirements I have pretty much decided to put it up 7-8 ft in the > air. BUT... I have several questions. > > > > 1. Is there an optimum height above the ground? > > 2, Can I get away with not sloping the ends toward the ground? (the deer are > heavy around here) > > 3. I have 491 ft of window line should I just put that up or should I order > another 100ft and splice > > it together? > > 4. What other suggestions do the readers have? > > > > Thanks > > Jim WAMEJ > > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
