I was afraid somebody would interpret that the wrong way ;-)
I'm just changing the mount on the 2m beam from what is normally
vertical, to horizontal. That will make it look sort of like
this:
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Thanks..73
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan [mailto:bryan@prodistributors.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 2:28 PM
> To: Michael Brown
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Side mounting 2m beam
>
>
>
> The antenna must be mounted in the same polarity as the
> antenna on the cluster or you will suffer a 20 db signal
> loss, more than you gain by going to the beam. Distance
> from the tower is not really that critical, if the boom
> has the boom drilled for both horizontal and vertical
> mounting, mount it directly to a tower leg.
>
> Bryan W5KFT
>
>
> At 02:17 PM 10/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >I'm getting ready to side mount a 14 el 2m beam on my tower for
> >use with the local packet cluster. I was wondering what is a good
> >distance to mount the antenna away from the tower ? Our local
> >tower climber suggested changing the mount on the beam to horizontal,
> >that way a piece of mast pipe with u-bolts can be used to attach it
> >to the tower and keep any mast/tower sections out of the way of the
> >beam's elements.
> >
> >Thanks...
> >
> >73 - Mike K9MI
> >
> >
> >
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