[TowerTalk] Non-Conductive Mast Section

[Jim Brown]

On 12/8/2011 11:56 AM, Rick Karlquist wrote:
> our last idea is the best.

Yes, the more I've thought about it, the better it sounds.

>   You have to have the tower behind the Yagi and have the feed coax exit off the back of the boom.  You have to mount it by attaching the back
> of the boom to the tower, which doesn't require any insulated
> pieces.

Did you miss that this is a LONG BOOM Yagi?  It's 22 ft. I need lots of 
dB to get to that repeater. Don't think I can use this method. :)

>   I can't imagine what KLM was thinking when they said to mount it to an insulated mast, unless they were thinking the top of the tower.

That's what they were thinking.   It's me that's thinking about a side 
mount.

Thanks Rick.

73, Jim K9YC