Topband: FW: [Fwd: Re: experience with Titanex 160S?]

[Gary E. Jones]

I used one at BQ9P on Pratas. We set it up with about 4 or 5 sets of guys.
You have to have men on each set of guys and one fellow at the base. You
mount the base, which has a horizontal bar that the vertical base pivots up
on. One man starts to move the base of the vertical from horizontal to
vertical. Essentially, none of the guy tenders can help this process because
the vertical essentially bends into a full inverted "U" shape. The guys with
the lowest set of guys can start helping to move it vertical as the bottom
most part get to about 45 degree bend, and they help and the vertical gets
even more tightly an inverted "U" and you swear that it is going to break in
half (and I think that sometimes it does). In our case it kept going up, and
then the second set of guys are at a ~45 degree angle and they can help
raise to vertical. By this point, the top end of the vertical is probably
off the ground, and you just keep raising to vertical and using the upper
guys to help raise the top sections to vertical. The antenna is like a very
long piece of spaghetti. It is very flexible, and we had a hard time keeping
is nice a straight when it was up. It often, in a stiff wind, looked like a
sinusoidal pattern while it was up with graduate sine wave above and below
each guy point. It stayed up in a stiff breeze and we had it erected only
for temporary use. There is an optional coil box at the base that lets you
tap it for best resonance. 

Hope that helps. 

               Gary            W5FI







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On Behalf Of k8gg at voyager.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:47 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: [Fwd: Re: experience with Titanex 160S?]



Hi all -  

I tried a private post, but Bob Wertz' spam filter will bounce me so I am
posting for all to read the following.

IMHO here is the correct commen tary   

73 es
GL   George   K8GG

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Subject: Re: Topband: experience with
Titanex 160S?
From:    k8gg at voyager.net
Date:    Sun, June 27,
2010 4:21 pm
To:      "Bob Wertz"
<bob6315 at earthlink.net>
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> I am wondering if someone out there can give me
their experience 
> using a Titanex 160M 87' vertical. Is it easy
to set up, and 
> how well does it work? Any comments would be
appreciated. 
> Thanks & 73
> Bob, NF7E
>
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Bob  ... it works fine if U can get it up .. it takes a large crew to hoist
it up and monitor the guy wires as it goes up...  
don,t forget it needs a loading coil and a matching coil as well.

I have a friend who put one up in Taiwan and the crew broke it twice ...
they ended up using more coil and about 78 feet of vertical after replacing
broken parts twice... GL OM.

73 de K8GG



> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB
QSB - hw? BK 
> 

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