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Beverage and software issues continued

West-Beverage in use now some weeks  works real good. But the east direction was missing. At least switching E-W must be possible . F.i. 16 December 160m  lots of  JA heard some 599 but deep in the noise on the TX  antenna. Tried a bi-directional Beverage last year but the result was no success. http://pa0o-jaap.blogspot.nl/2015/02/160m-dx.html So now i set up a 2nd  east Beverage Saturday I need to follow the east west pattern of the ditches avoiding crossing the land strokes s As long as catle is on the fields only E-W Beverages are possible I  had 2 wires about 330m long former army field telephone wire  twisted.. Steel wires with CU   core  20 OHm / 330m very strong insulated wire perfect for Beverages . It was a touch job to untwist a 330m line.. Now i could pull relative easy  the 2nd  wire from the West Beverage to use it for the 2nd East Beverage.  Relative easy... Most work in the dark it is special setti...

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