Towertalk
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TowerTalk] Cost effective Tower height

To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cost effective Tower height
From: K8RI <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:19:56 -0500
List-post: <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
On 12/2/2011 11:09 AM, Steve Hunt wrote:
> Plus - the second antenna might not need to cover all the bands if he
> chooses the heights carefully.

Regardless of the antenna height the nulls and nodes in the pattern will 
be in a constant state of change as far as being optimum or degrading.

73

Roger (K8RI)

> Steve G3TXQ
>
> On 02/12/2011 15:56, K1TTT wrote:
>> Of course he did, but there is no way to fill the nulls with a single beam.
>> You can mount it on a crankup and search vertically for the best signal, but
>> that seems to be more expensive to me and not as flexible.  You can cover
>> lots more elevation angles with a second antenna at about half the height of
>> the top one... so my recommendation is to keep that in mind because its much
>> easier to design that in from the start than find out later when you have
>> more money that the tower you got can't handle it.
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk


_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>