I'd have to study this a bit more but why not put a 3 ele 6m beam at the top
and stack with the DB11 on 6m?73,Gary K9GS
-------- Original message --------From: Raymond Benny <rayn6vr@gmail.com> Date:
11/22/20 10:23 PM (GMT-06:00) To: wesattaway@bellsouth.net Cc: Tower Talk
<TowerTalk@contesting.com>, David Winarsky <david@winarsky.com> Subject: Re:
[TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it? You paid big bucks for a
good mast. 7ft sticking up won't hurt a thing.Besides, you may want to add
another antenna in the future.Ray,N6VR/W7YAOn Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:56 PM Wes
Attaway <wesattaway@bellsouth.net> wrote:> I would leave it in place because
someday you might want to put a vertical> up there.>>
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TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of> David>
Winarsky> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 8:39 PM> To:
TowerTalk@contesting.com> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or
leave it?>> I'm putting up my first tower, a LM-354HDSP with a Steppir DB11 and
a JK 40> meter horizontal dipole, both in the same mast. I have a 20 ft 2 in OD
mast> from Tashjian and am wondering whether I should cut off the unused
length> or> leave it?>> Karl at Tashjian suggested I install the rotator plate
3 ft below the top> of> the tower and the DB11 2 ft above the top, with the
JK40 8 ft above that> (10> ft from the top of the tower). That will leave 7 ft
of the mast unused.>> Do you folks recommend I leave the extra 7ft of the mast
in place or cut it> off?>> Appreciate the input and any other comments or
suggestions on my plan.>> 73,> David K6ZD>
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