[TowerTalk] fiberglass guys

[Tom Rauch]

> I've never understood how someone can spend $4000 for a
radio and amp,
> another $1000 or $2000 for tower/concrete/rotor and cheap
out on the antenna, guy
> wire and coax.  Cut corners on lots of things but not
that!

.....and also keep in mind just because one system doesn't
have problems someone noticed it doesn't create a rule or
installation benchmark.

Here in Lamar County, the Sheriff's repeater has serious
pattern problems from guylines and a tower that is more than
25 wavelengths from their antenna.

I can show a model of my three-element forty meter yagi that
shows non-resonant guy lines 20-30 feet below the antenna
seriously degrade F/B ratio.

A single system or a few systems lacking noticeable problems
through some sort of random happenstance does not create an
installation rule.

I'd sure break up the guy lines into short lengths.

73 Tom