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I've been thinking of case one myself.
Instead of the CC 40 I've been thinking about the Optibeam 4030. 2
elements both bands on one boom.
Jim Jarvis wrote:
> 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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R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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