[TowerTalk] GUYS AND COAX

[Cqtestk4xs@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/05 6:43:57 PM Greenwich Standard Time, 
RXDesign at ssvecnet.com writes:
Obviously you and others 
compromised in a different manner and that is perfectly fine - your decision 
- only do not (as Bill did) lessen our decision if we 
decide to go with Steel with insulators
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I did not say that using insulators was cheaping out.  My implication was 
that using straight runs of EHS where fiberglass use would improve the pattern 
was cheaping out.  One can get pretty much the same effect using insulators.  
That is standard practice on broadcast towers.

The bottom line is still the same...If you are going to invest thousands of 
dollars in a radio, amp, tower and miscellaneous concrete, rotors and such, it 
IS cheaping out (or if we want to make it more politically correct) foolish 
decision, to not do something about the guy wires if they look to be 
problematic.  Whether you want to use insulators, Philly or Polyrod, that cost is going 
to be a very small percentage of all the bucks you spend on the other stuff.

By the way, in my cheaping out statement I included coax.  Even more 
important than the guy wire is the choice of a good quality coax.  I wish I had a 
dollar for each guy I met at a hamfest with a roll of used no-name brand coax of 
RG8 or worse yet RG58, that he was going to use on his HF, or even worse yet, 2 
meter setup.

Bill  K4XS