[TowerTalk] Glen Martin Voyager Hazer

[Jim Lux]

At 01:32 PM 12/22/2005, Rick Karlquist wrote:
> >         Why do you need to run  antennas up and down the tower? If
> > everything's properly installed, you  shouldn't have to work on anything
> > for YEARS!
>
>Speaking for myself; I want to do antenna experiments and don't
>want to climb to make each change.  Also, it is useful to be
>able to change the height of the antenna as another variable in
>the experiments, although you really need a crank up tower to do
>that, since you don't want to be leaving the guys off of a Hazer
>setup for any length of time.

One could probably come up with some sort of elevator scheme that could fly 
the antenna up  and down, while leaving guys attached.  Probably need some 
sort of az/el/roll positioner though, and it would require some thought to 
figure out how to snake a multi element antenna up through the guys.  It 
might be useful to have the guys attached at staggered (by a foot or so) 
heights.  An interesting problem, but it would let you experiment on a 
really tall tower (would that I could install such a thing on my suburban 
5000 sq ft lot...).


>But I'm more of an experimenter/builder than an operator.
>
>Rick N6RK