[TowerTalk] RE: Question

[Jeff Maass]

Is that something people have tried successfully?

Mine goes up next Saturday.

Jeff Maass       jmaass@columbus.rr.com     Located near Columbus Ohio
         USPSA # L-1192       NROI/CRO    Amateur Radio K8ND
    Maass' IPSC Resources Page:  http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Stewart" <k3mm@ex-pressnet.com>
To: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com>; "William F. Beyer Jr."
<n2wb@arrl.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Question


>
> I would suspect that the problem with the XM240 could have been solved by
> simply uninsulating the reflector.  That is the only substantial
electrical
> difference between the 402CD and the XM240.  That fix should be as simple
as
> putting a short jumper at the center of the reflector to the boom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com>
> To: "William F. Beyer Jr." <n2wb@arrl.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Question
>
>
> >
> > 15 feet might not be enough...
> >
> > The problems with 40m/tribander interaction consist almost entirely of
> > the 40 meter antenna messing up the 15 meter section of the tribander.
> > Whose tribander or which tribander doesn't even matter, the 40 meter
> > antenna is the problem. Modeling shows that even when the SWR
> > disturbance is improved by separation, that significant pattern
> > distortion remains on 15m (not gain, f/b and f/s).



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