I haven't seen many recommendations on this. I've googled and searched eham.net to no avail. What is the minimum height above the tower top shelf recommended for an HF beam (KT34A, FWIW). I'm trying
1 inch. As long as no part of the antenna or mount scrapes the tower you are OK. Carl KM1H _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk ma
Since most tower manufacturers spec so many sq ft, 1' above the top of the tower. Then mounting the antenna 1' above the top would seem reasonable. The main thing is to have enough room for the cable
Having just spent the weekend up and down all three of my towers (and I hate climbing mast steps also), each tower has only one antenna up top. One antenna is a KT36XA and all are 1 foot above the to
Depending upon the length of the mast and the arrays that are on it there is going to be some moderate to strong imbalance that will kick the mast out at the bottom when releasing the rotator clamps.
Two of my towers use TailTwister rotators which have a mast clamp that allows the mast to be moved sideways a bit from the rotator in order to free up the rotator. Actually what I do is to place a sm