[TowerTalk] Room For Shorty Above TH11

[John Lockhart]

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> From: n4si@pobox.com
> To: ke5fi@wt.net; towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Room For Shorty Above TH11
> Date: Saturday, April 05, 1997 9:33 PM
> 
> > > > My 40-2 CD is 12 feet above TH-7 and both work great.  Just 
> > > > put the cushcraft boom supports downward instead of above 
> > > > the boom.  
> 
> > > Watch out...W6QHS (now W6NL) says not to do this, even though 
> > > he once advocated it. Instead, beef up the boom...
> 
> > Why not?  Logically, the supports would seem to work about as well
under
> > the beam as over.


To help see the difference, imagine the supports being wire instead of
tubing.

73,

John  W0DC



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