Thanks everyone for all the great comments and advice! It sounds like a lot of
people have a similar setup and are actually utilizing the extra space space.
I wasn’t sure the extra length of mast would be stable enough to hold another
antenna on its own, but based on this thread I’ll plan to put a 3 feet of the
mast in the tower (with the rotator plate 3 ft down as Karl advised), put the
Steppir a few feet above the top of the tower, and the JK40 all the way at the
top.
By the way, one additional question I forgot to ask— I had been advised to
rotate the JK40 90 degrees from the Steppir to avoid interaction between the
two antennas. Do you folks advise the same?
Thanks again,
David K6ZD
> On Nov 22, 2020, at 21:51, Dick Williams <richardk8ztt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dave,
>
> If you are not planning on stacking another antenna on the tower, why not
> move the 40M dipole up higher and utilize the additional 7 ft to get the 40M
> rotatable dipole a bit higher up? That tower seems to have similar specs to
> my old US Tower HDX-54 that I have had up close to 20 years. Like yourself,
> I have a 20 ft mast and the rotor (Tailtwister) is mounted in the tower with
> 3 or so feet of mast in the tower. I use the tower to hold two Force 12
> Magnum antennas. One is a 7 element 12 M beam about 1 ft above the top of
> the tower, and the other is an 8 element 10 M beam about 3 ft from the top of
> the mast (the U Bolt and saddle that holds the truss cable for the 10M beam
> is at the top of the mast). I live on top of a hill, and have had winds in
> excess of 70 MPH on more than one occasion.
>
> Have fun erecting the tower. For the first time since I erect it, I had to
> do some maintenance last week, and it was sure nice to be able to lower it
> down!
>
> Dick, K8ZTT
>
>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:38 PM Gary K9GS <k9gs@gjschwartz.com> wrote:
>> I'd have to study this a bit more but why not put a 3 ele 6m beam at the top
>> and stack with the DB11 on 6m?73,Gary K9GS
>> -------- Original message --------From: Raymond Benny <rayn6vr@gmail.com>
>> Date: 11/22/20 10:23 PM (GMT-06:00) To: wesattaway@bellsouth.net Cc: Tower
>> Talk <TowerTalk@contesting.com>, David Winarsky <david@winarsky.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it? You paid
>> big bucks for a good mast. 7ft sticking up won't hurt a thing.Besides, you
>> may want to add another antenna in the future.Ray,N6VR/W7YAOn Sun, Nov 22,
>> 2020, 7:56 PM Wes Attaway <wesattaway@bellsouth.net> wrote:> I would leave
>> it in place because someday you might want to put a vertical> up there.>>
>> -----------------------------------> Wes Attaway (N5WA)> (318)
>> 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA> Computer/Cellphone Forensics>
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>> -----Original Message-----> From: TowerTalk
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of> David> Winarsky>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 8:39 PM> To: TowerTalk@contesting.com>
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it?>> I'm putting
>> up my first tower, a LM-354HDSP with a Steppir DB11 and a JK 40> meter
>> horizontal dipole, both in the same mast. I have a 20 ft 2 in OD mast> from
>> Tashjian and am wondering whether I should cut off the unused length> or>
>> leave it?>> Karl at Tashjian suggested I install the rotator plate 3 ft
>> below the top> of> the tower and the DB11 2 ft above the top, with the JK40
>> 8 ft above that> (10> ft from the top of the tower). That will leave 7 ft of
>> the mast unused.>> Do you folks recommend I leave the extra 7ft of the mast
>> in place or cut it> off?>> Appreciate the input and any other comments or
>> suggestions on my plan.>> 73,> David K6ZD>
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