[TowerTalk] The BIG one!

Joe Giacobello, K2XX k2xx at swva.net
Wed Sep 20 21:16:18 EDT 2006


Agreed, but couldn't he have put up a five element quad on a much 
smaller boom at substantially lower weight and still obtained about the 
same gain?  I'm not sure here, but if you press me, I'll model it.

733, Joe
K2XX

Martin AA6E wrote:

>K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
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>>I just had a phone conversation with Stan Stockton,  K5GO, and he's building 
>>a big tower that'll have a 5 element 40M beam on a 100'  boom on top of it. 
>>Wowser! He estimates the weight at 2000 pounds. Double  wowser! 
>> 
>>    I like guys with vision!
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>>Cheers,
>>Steve    K7LXC
>>TOWER TECH 
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>These projects can be useful to show the XYL, when I need to spend a few 
>$K on new toys:  How much worse it could have been.
>
>73 Martin AA6E
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