[Towertalk] Grounding mast to tower

[EUGENE SMAR]

TT:

      My Bencher Skyhawk used to have all-insulated elements, too.  Before I
put it on the tower I used a small aluminum strap (maybe 1/2 inch by five
inches), self-tapping screw and SS hose clamp (plus 88 tape) on each
parasitic element to increase the capacitive loading of the tower/antenna
system for lowband operation.  Tower is now 5-6 dB louder, TX and RX, than
my inverted L.

    FWIW.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
-----Original Message-----
From: n4kg@juno.com <n4kg@juno.com>
To: TOWERTALK@contesting.com <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>; goudpj@mac.com
<goudpj@mac.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Grounding mast to tower


>On Tue, 2 Apr 2002  Pete Goudreau <goudpj@mac.com> writes:
>>
>>   BIG  SNIP
>>
>> all the elements of most yagis are insulated from the boom, too.
>>
>
>HUH?  Only if you are looking at Force 12 or KLM antennas
>is this a valid statement.
>
>Obviously you have not examined any of the Cushcraft, HyGain,
>or Mosley antennas which have grounded elements on all of their
>antennas except for the driven elements of CC and Mosley tribanders.
>
>A thorough analysis would have caught this detail. :- 0
>
>Tom  N4KG
>
>
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