[TowerTalk] Re: STACKING

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

Turning 90 degrees does not always work out, because sometimes booms
can behave as dipoles with end loading and can weird the patterns just
as much running the antennas in-line.

73, Guy.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Ewing" <martin at aa6e.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: STACKING


> Seems to me you should be able to nearly eliminate the interaction
by
> setting your 15 m beam azimuth 90 degrees offset from your 40 m
beam.
> (Assuming the booms aren't resonant!)  Complicates your pointing
just a
> little, of course, and it would look funny.  I wonder if anyone has
> tried that.
>
> An even stranger configuration would be to set up your 15 m beam
with
> vertical polarization.  You could share the boom.
>
> It's getting late here...
>
> -Martin
>
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