[TowerTalk] Omni Directional Antenna on Tower

[Tom Rauch]

> 1)  Putting the repeater's omni antenna on the side of the
tower with a
> cross-arm.  I would need to install a cross-arm and would
have a little shadowing
> from the tower.

The cross arm has to be about 30 feet long to only have a
"little shadowing" at UHF, unless you consider 5-10dB or
more null a "little shadow".

I'd put the antenna on top.

73 Tom