[TowerTalk] Looking for Ideas - What to Put on Tower

[Bill Parry]

If I had that nice big tower I think I might buy that MonstIR antenna. You
would get 10 - 40 (and WARC and it may even work 6?) and a pretty good
antenna (only one rotator, thrust bearing and run of coax and rotator cable.
I have never seen one but I think that it sounds like a pretty good antenna.
Someone in your area may have one. I think I would stack a single element 80
M dipole above it, and I would put one or more full sized 160 M slopers from
the top. You will need a listening antenna like the K9AY loop or beverage (a
friend of mine has a full size slope on 160 and he says it is real noisy). 

I used to have the KLM monobanders and the Hygain monobanders. I thought the
KLM 15 was a real killer, the 10 M version was not particularly good and the
20 was OK. I thought the Hygain 5 element antennas were OK but they kept
breaking elements and I finally put them in the trash. I think there are a
lot better choices that the KLM beams these days.

You might want to stack a couple of antennas for each band and side mount
them or use TIC ring rotators. A fairly good way might be to use the 4
element Cushcraft monobanders or the Force 12 monobanders for stacking.

I'm sure many others have differing opinions.

Bill, W5VX

>-----Original Message-----
>From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry Burke
>Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:24 AM
>To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Looking for Ideas - What to Put on Tower
>
>
>I'm in the early planning stages for the tower(s) and antennas that will be
>installed at my new QTH in Q2 or so of 2007. Initially I hope to have a
>single tower in the 100 foot range, probably 55G guyed with Phillistran.
>The
>tower will likely be 200 ft or more from the shack. I operate everything
>from 160m to 6m (I'm a newbie on the latter) and, if I can ever get my
>transverter going, 2m. I enjoy DX'ing and am not a contester. The proposed
>tower location is very accessible, both for cranes (if needed) and
>tramming.
>
>
>One going-in assumption on my part -- always subject to revision -- is that
>I will shunt-feed the tower for 160m and try the wires-from-a-catenary
>approach to erect an 80m 4-square off the tower, at least for starters.
>It's
>also likely that I will end up with a second tower, closer to the shack for
>6m and 2m (which are not as important to me -- yet). Also, I was really
>spoiled with KLM monobanders for 10/15/20 during the last sunspot peak, so
>I
>am a bit biased in that direction.
>
>Question for the group. How would you load this beast up with antennas?
>What
>would you choose and why?
>
>Larry Burke WI5A
>Friendswood, Texas
>
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