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Subject: [TowerTalk] Backstays
From: w2up@bellatlantic.net (Barry Kutner)
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:48:10 +0000
On  6 May 97, Frank Donovan <donovanf@sgate.com> wrote:
> 
> I use Phillystran with Preformed Line Products grips for all of my boom
> backstays, and I highly recommend that approach.
> 
As the manufacturer supplied backstays are metal, might they have any 
effect on an antenna's resonance or pattern?

Has anyone ever modeled an antenna with and without a backstay and 
seen a difference?

73 Barry
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up@bellatlantic.net
Newtown, PA         FRC         alternate: barry@w2up.wells.com

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