Well, *I* am planning to have only about 9 feet of mast extending beyond
the top of my tower. The Township Code permits 70 feet, so I will use a
60-foot tower, plus the 9-foot mast extension, on which I expect to
mount only my 3-el. SteppIR and perhaps a VHF/UHF beam.
But anyone who wants rotatable stacked arrays or antennas for several
different bands might need a much longer mast extending beyond the top
of the tower, unless the tower itself is rotated.
How many antennas can you mount on a 5-foot mast without adverse
interactions?
73
Alan NV8A
On 09/12/05 09:00 pm NØATH tossed the following ingredients into the
ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
> Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and stronger to just add another section of
> tower and only extend out 5 foot of mast?
> I have worked in a metal shop many years of my life, been a ham for 25+, and
> have never understood why anyone
> would want to put an antenna mast 15 foot out of a tower. ( No relation to
> Fred ) Dave / NØATH
> But this stuff surely isn't anything like as strong as the $20/ft.
> Chrome-Moly stuff they sell to support an HF Yagi 15ft. above the top of
> the 60ft. tower.
>
> It may work well as a guyed antenna support, but when I hear "mast" I
> think "unsupported," as in the scenario above.
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