[TowerTalk] Small HF Yagi

[Jeff Stai WK6I]

hi - one thing I have considered doing when I get to do what you are doing, 
is to mount a 3-element steppir on a swing or other mount that will give 180 
degrees of travel - then you use that '180' button on your steppir 
controller to get the rest. For example, from here (W6) I would mount it so 
that it swung from 90 to 0 to 270 to cover EU, all of the US, and back to JA 
and the pacific, and pick up SA and VK/ZL off the 180 side (which I often do 
anyway with my single steppir). You would also have less potential 
interaction than you would with a traditional tribander, since each antenna 
is a monobander wherever it is tuned for. And you could put them on the same 
band and stack them...

hope this helps! - jeff wk6i

At 09:50 AM 6/13/2005, Dick, WN3R wrote:
>I am putting up a 120' SSV Lattice Self Supporting tower. It's 12 feet
>wide at the base and about 2.5 feet at the top.  The MonstIR will be
>the main HF antenna for 6-40 meters.  I am thinking about adding a
>small tri-bander at the 70-80' level as a multiplier antenna for SO2R
>operation.  Because of the size of the tower a TIC ring seems to be
>out of the question. Is the tower too wide for the yagi to be mounted
>on a leg or side mount?  Is it advisable to put this 2 or element yagi
>on a rotator?  Is this a stupid idea?

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Jeff Stai               jds at twistedoak.com
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