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Re: [TowerTalk] optimum vertical length

To: Michael Ryan <mryan001@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] optimum vertical length
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:36:47 -0700
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Michael Ryan wrote:
> Where did that 12 - 15 ft above a structure come from?  - m

I'm not sure, but you see restrictions of "12 feet above the highest 
point of the structure" for all sorts of things, so I suspect the FCC 
just adopted it for the old CB antenna rules. I just looked up the newer 
rules and it's 20 ft.

The OTARD rules also have the 12 foot limit

Probably comes from some standard structural size for pipe or something.


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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:44 AM
> To: Dan Zimmerman N3OX
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] optimum vertical length
> 
> Dan Zimmerman N3OX wrote:
>>> If one uses the old CB antenna rules of 12-15 ft max height above
>>> structure as a constraint, are you better off with some sort of short
>>> vertical dipole, up 30 ft on the roof, or with a 45 ft vertical, on the
>>> ground?
>
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