Bruce-
When you say whatever your little heart desires, what would that be?
Antennas for an SO2R contest station? DX pileup chasing only? Ragchewing
with old friends? And what are your budget constraints? Once you decide
those things you can narrow your choices of tower and antenna.
I spent close to $30K over the past few years putting in a US Tower HDX-589
with a SteppIR DB42 on top. That includes a very expensive San Mateo County
building permit, 11 yards of concrete, lots of cables, Orion 2800 rotor
(which may not be big enough!), chrome moly mast, etc, etc. With the mast,
the antenna is at 92 feet. The DB42 is truly wonderful, but I still need
separate antennas to listen on other bands at the same time, a fundamental
limitation of the SteppIR. We get fierce winds here, with 90+ mph gusts, so
I wanted a crankup to be able to lower the antenna behind a thick bank of
trees when the big storms come in off the Pacific Ocean. I didn't want to
climb a 100' tower every time something broke, like I used to when I had my
2-element quad mounted on a 120' fir tree. I climbed that tree too many
times!
73,
Steve
N6SJ
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bruce
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 9:21 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] first post
i am new to this list, like a few minutes ago. only because i have had a
40 foot crank up tower with a force 12 c4 atop for some 10-15 years. we are
looking for a new house and it will have no deed restrictions. i can put up
whatever my little heart desires. i am looking at a tower of at least 100
feet and would like antennas for 10/15/20 as well as warc
12/17 and 40m atop. no trapped antennas. had a mosley before the force
12 and it was amazing what the force 12 heard that the mosley was deaf to.
but first the tower.
not sure how to find previous posts to the list so sorry if this may seem
repetitive to the list. direct replies are fine to keep list traffic down.
73...bruce
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