Re: [HCDX]: Beverage Antennas

[Dan Henderson <dandan2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick:

Can't you put them up about 6-8 ft and still obtain the "beverage" feature?
 I tried this several times on other folks property where kids ran and
played, and the antennas at 8 feet worked still good at least for
shortwave.   Incidentally I have visited your area in one of those "60-80
kt winds" and you aren't exaggerating!!!!

73

Dan Henderson

At 02:48 PM 01/17/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Here on the Northern Oregon Coast we have alot of deer and elk, but I
>don't have much problem where my antennas runs. However, I have had a
>herd of elk wak right through the neighbors barbed wire fence and tear
>my beverage antenna up too. That isn't often though.  My biggest
>problems here are the high winds of 70+ MPH tearing  down the trees to
>fall across the antennas, knocking them to the ground. At times. Last
>November we had one of the strongest wind storms I can remember, gusts
>of 113 mph.But winds in the 70-80 Mph range are common. We have had
>about eight of such storms so far this season. I am sure more to come...
>
>73s, 
>Patrick Martin
>Seaside  OR  (USA)
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>My problem in central Michigan with my beverages:  deer.  They run all
>over the woods.  Often I find the beverage down and trace the path. If
>the wire makes a sudden 90 degree turn into the woods, I know a buck
>caught it in his antlers.
>
>It gets worse during the fall deer hunting season when they are running
>all over to avoid bullets and arrows.  Then you have the damn
>tresspassers who sometimes "complain" of the dangerous wires laying all
>over. Believe it!!!
>
>It's real hard to maintain the beverage farm.
>
>73,
>Don Hosmer  N8TAV
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