Now all 8 beverages are pulled out to the planned length. We have still not connected the coaxes or baluns. I have a roll of 500m RG-58 on the way so hopefully by next weekend we’ll have them all connected. Now I need to finish up the 8-port beverage switch which is able to route any beverage to 4 radios. It will be very interesting to compare the noise levels on the different ones and also how well they work on 160 and 80m.
These are the finals:
Beverage, 580m (1900 feet) long towards West Coast US (330 degrees)
Beverage, 550m (1800 feet) long towards East Coast US (300 degrees)
Beverage, 320m (1050 feet) long towards South America (260 degrees)
Beverage, 220m (720 feet) long towards EU/Africa (180 degrees)
Beverage, 320m (1050 feet) long towards South East (120 degrees)
Beverage, 450m (1480 feet) long towards Australia (80 degrees)
Beverage, 700m (2300 feet) long towards Japan (45 degrees)
Beverage, 800m (2620 feet) long towards North (5 degrees)
Tomorrow work will continue with the beams.
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