Tom, you are absolutely right to ask the questions "why did I ..".
Answer --- I did not think the design all the way through, too many cooks
and not enough bottle washers, and a number of other crazy excuses :) This
summer's task is to insert an insulator right at the tower for each guy --
well okay in fact it will be about 1.5 feet from the top plate. I would sure
like to use Phillystrand. I have added up the cost and compared to using
some high tension power line cermaic insulators that I have the cost looks
pretty high. So in each of the top guys there will be an insulator about 1.5
from the tower another one about 12-13 ft from the top insulator. Fingers
crossed it should do the job. Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion -- I
put them all in the design pot stir them around and try to find an optimum
solution suited to my needs.
.. sylvan
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Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK
"A Novel Perspective of Amateur Radio Contesting" at
http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
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