[TowerTalk] suspending more than one inverted V from a tower???

Artmouton k5fnq at cox.net
Sat Sep 20 14:41:26 EDT 2008


I use the top guy wires (cut to length, insulated and fed by coax) on my 
60' Rohn 25G tower.  Both the 80 and 40 work very well as inverted Vee's 
in that configuration.
Distance between the center point is the width of the tower.
Art K5FNQ


chasm at texas.net wrote:
> Obviously long wire/dipoles/inverted V's should be kept at right 
> angles to each other and as far apart as possible.
> 
> I am wanting to support two dipoles from the end of a yardarm (or 
> whatever you call the pipe extending out to the side of a tower with a 
> pully or three and halyard(s) )  and wonder just how close to each 
> other the dipoles (sharing the same terminal supports as well as the 
> same center support) can be.  they are different length and types
> (a G5RV and a DX-CC) and obviously will not be energized at the same time.
> 
> would 3ft apart be sufficient?  6ft?  what - I suppose the question 
> actually is, is the MINIMUM distance apart - you can run these wires???
> 
> 73
> chas/k5dam
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