Amateur Radio Station K1TTT Beverage Antennas


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I am using 3 two wire Beverage antennas from a design in the ON4UN Low Band DXing book. These antennas give two directions at a time which provides 6 directions of coverage. The 6 directions are routed to the 40, 80, and 160 meter operating positions through a relay system that lets any of the 3 bands select any of the 6 directions. The cables are decoupled from each other by using W3LPL bandpass filters right at the switch box because the filters have a very high input impedance outside their pass bands.


Relay box with bandpass filters on top.


Shack end of beverages showing the box with the two transformers for each of the 3 Beverages.

A typical support post using electric fence fiberglass stakes and insulators.

How trees can be used instead of posts

An end showing the reflection transformer and ground system.

 



David Robbins, K1TTT K1TTT@arrl.net