[TowerTalk] Detuning booms?

[K7LXC at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/17/2008 10:18:08 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:

>  I swear I've seen stuff on detuning a boom. I even thought I  saw it in the
ARRL Antenna handbook. However, I can't seem to  anything.
 
    What are the circumstances that made you  determine that you need to 
detune a boom? You have 2 yagis and have some  destructive interaction between 
them? What are the antennas and what are  you seeing?
 
    If the boom is interacting, doesn't that mean  that it resonates 
somewhere where you don't want it? How about hanging a piece  of wire off of each end 
of the boom? That would change the resonance. 
 
Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH 



 
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