[TowerTalk] Stacked TH5MKII's

[Pete Smith]

At 05:12 PM 11/25/00 -0700, K7HPH wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience stacking a pair of
>TH5MKII's, or other tribanders for that matter? I have about 15 feet of
>distance I can put between them. Would it be worth it? Thanks in advance for
>the info.


K1VR and N6BV "wrote the book" on this subject, and Fred's exactly right.
Moreover, short-boom tribanders seem to be somewhat less forgiving than big
ones like the TH-6, TH-7 and KT-34XA.  I modeled my C-3 stack (28-foot
spacing) with a small 10-meter yagi in between, and while it added a little
gain on that band I decided it wasn't worth the hassle. If I put the full
tribander in between (in the model), the 15 and 20-meter performance was
actually less than a single antenna.

73, Pete N4ZR

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