[TowerTalk] Antenna placement...!!

[Mike]

EA1DR Óscar Luis wrote:
>    Hi to all;
>
>     I am renewing my antennas at home and there are some doubts that keep
> coming to my mind. I am not very clear about the setting up of the antennas
> and how to distribute them on the mast of the tower, so some advice will be
> more than welcome.
>
>    My idea is as follow: the top mast of the tower will me 16,5 feet high
> above
> the tower; main antenna will be a stepp IR 3 Element. Above the yagi I am
> thinking of rigid dipole for 40m followed by another dipole for 30m; or
> maybe another option could be (and here is where all doubts come to me)
> putting the stepp IR in between the two rigid dipoles. Another option could
> also be setting up the Stepp IR followed by the two dipoles (as I mentioned
> at the beginning) but I am not sure if the two dipoles being bands so close
> (30 and 40) and the spacing in between them is not enough, they my cause
> interferences to each other . 
>
> There are not many options since the mast is not too long, so suggestions
> are much appreciated. 
>
>  EA1DR Óscar Luis
> ea1dr at telefonica.net
> 73's
Another option would be the 30/40 element for the SteppIR.
73, Mike NF4L