The offsets can be compensated for easily with a little longer coaxial
calbe that acts as a delay line to electrically aliegn the driven
elements, when pointed in the same direction.
Its already been done.
Jay
Pete Smith wrote:
>
> Would take a heckuva tower -- I'm not sure even Rohn 45 would be heavy
> enough, but otherwise I agree.
>
> The only issue I can see is that running the C51s and C31s together for a
> 4-high stack could be problematical because of the horizontal offset of the
> C31 part of the C51 array -- might somewhat degrade the pattern on 20-10.
> It'd be interesting to model, though.
>
> Doesn't VE1JF have something similar? Jim, you out there?
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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