[TowerTalk] re 40 antenna name the flame thrower

[n4kg@juno.com]

Stacked 2L40's get my vote, but I would recommend
160 ft of Rohn 45 guyed every 40 ft with the 2L40's
at 80 and 160 ft.  Stick a couple of tribanders at
40 and 120 ft, my favorite low and high heights.
POWERFUL one tower solution.

de Tom  N4KG

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000  K7LXC@aol.com writes:
> 
> In a message dated 9/20/00 12:04:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> n9iww2@gte.net 
> writes:
> 
> > Does someone have an article on a 40 meter beam call the 
> flame  thrower CQ  magazine wrote it up back about 1985 it was 
> a 3 element full size  40 meter  beam worked great I seen it at 
> peter Dahl site in elpaso TX  looked very large work extremely 
> well to I'm thinking about building on the  my station.
> >  
>     BIG antenna, BIG tower, BIG rotator, BIG bucks, BIG job. 
> 
>     If my goal was to build something with that kind of performance, 
> I'd  stack two XM240's/402CD's. With that system it's Ham IV's, 
> 25G and  VERY  similar performance to the big full-sized antenna 
> PLUS selectable  angles and  paths. 
> Tres' cool!
> 
> Cheers,   Steve   K7LXC
> Tower Tech 

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