Hi. I'm pondering my likely roving / portable antenna setup for the UHF
contest and am thinking of mounting a 432 yagi below a 1296 loop yagi.
Does any one have any practical experience they can share re running a metallic
1.5" to 2" mast (plus another feed line) thru a 432 MHz horizontal yagi. The
antenna in question will be the a M2 21 element 432 antenna which would be
centre mounted on the mast. The antenna at the top of the stack will be
directive systems 55 element 1296 loop yagi.
I'll probably just try this at home before August but thought I would ask for
comments first. It seems like a lot of metal to run thru the pattern of the
432 yagi. I'm thinking this is probably not going to work out very well but it
would simplify the station set up. In the past I've just run one antenna per
mast to avoid having to deal with this and I may end up just running separate
masts for 432 and 1296 and forgoing the other bands.
Any comments are welcome.
Regards
Mark S
VE7AFZ
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