TT:
This is a planning/brainstorming question, with a time-horizon of 12-14
months.
Sometime next Summer, if things go as anticipated. This is an
antenna question, not tower. The question is a single boom vs
multi-boom solution. There are two use cases:
I can put up one 70' tower in this community. 50% setback. 80mph
wind rqmt for my county. While I'd like a motorized crankup, which
allows me to set the antenna height appropriately for any given band,
it's likely to be a fixed height tower.
So...the antenna question:
1) use case #1: 3 el SteppIR, plus 2 el CC 40 above it.
steppir @ 60, 40 @ 70. Have a 2el 30 design to slide
into the 40m boom.
2) use case #2: 3 el SteppIR with 30/40 DE. This would be
at 70' Doesn't excite me. Would like 2 el on both 30/40.
So...the question is, what might be a reasonable single boom
scenario around the steppIR? Convince the Mertel's to make a
2 el 30/40 using their folded DE? This idea would have TWO DE's,
one for 30/40, the other for 20-6. One could retract the unused
antenna, to avoid interaction. Admittedly, bandswitching in that
scenario would be slow.
So...what would your approach be?
N2EA
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