[TowerTalk] SteppIR

[Richard M. Gillingham]

Sounds good Gary,  We'll see you in the pileups, but not for long..(grin)

3 el in the blistering southern sun..  2.5 years and going strong..
Gil, W1RG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <garyejones at cmaaccess.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] SteppIR


> The real issue here, in my mind, (outside of the OM that lives on a
> saltwater island and had to replace his aluminum every year or two) is
> how long will the SteppIR elements hold up and how long the motor
> drives (the mechanics) will continue to accurately move the copper
> strips out and back. I wouldn't touch one until I heard how these
> elements are doing after five years vibrating 20 Hz in the wind,
> bending under ice loads, taking the blistering southern summers, and a
> couple of thousand changes of length.  My hunch is that there will not
> be a single antenna working at 5 or 10 years, while there are many 30
> year old aluminum monobanders still "playing" like the day there were
> first erected......
>
>           73
>
>                     Gary       W5FI
>
>
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