[TowerTalk] The BIG one!

[John E.Cleeve]

This thread reminds me of a Qso I had, with a Finnish station, back in 
the mid 80s, he told me that he had bought a redundant tower crane, 
had it erected in a forest, and then built a 3 element 80 metre yagi 
on the boom, then using the crane drive mechanism to rotate the 
antenna, his signal was huge....I often wondered how it looked, and if 
it survived the Finnish winters, encrusted with ice!! ....regards, 
John G3JVC.


On Thu Sep 21 11:58 , 'Blake M' <n4gi at tampabay.rr.com> sent:

>And I'd like to hear about what's going to turn it ;- )
>
>73,
>Blake N4GI
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Mark Beckwith" n5ot at n5ot.com>
>To: towertalk at contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] The BIG one!
>
>
>> Possibly even a stack of 2 element Yagis would be
>> better than one 5 element most of the time.
>
>I'm pretty sure that once he gets the first one working he plans to 
build a
>second one and stack the two.  This was what Stan told me a couple 
years
>ago.
>
>> The 5 elements at 100´has a broader vertical lobe
>> and still a lot of gain up to 40° (like a dipole)
>> which might be useful for close in contacts but
>> is worse for DX contests.
>
>Safe to assume Stan's purpose is DX contests.  After he stacks two of 
them,
>he can feed the lower one by itself when he wants to work the USA.
>
>Stan, buddy, get on here and defend yourself!  I, for one, say "go 
for it!"
>
>Mark, N5OT
>
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