[TowerTalk] Sidearm- was Obstruction Lighting

Doug Rehman rehman at surveil.com
Wed Jul 6 07:44:02 EDT 2005


Gene AD3F wrote:

>       When you mount a vertical antenna in the inverted 
> position as you are contemplating, you need to allow for 
> drainage of any accumulated water from within the radome.  

Very good advice.

>      An alternative would be to mount the vertical normally, 
> but on a sidearm BELOW the tower top. 

Since the tower is a crank-up, I need to make sure the vertical stays out of
the way of the antennas at the top of the tower when the tower is retracted.
I figured putting a sidearm at the very top of the top section and mounting
the antenna in an inverted position would be the best.

Doug
K4DDR



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