[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 98, Issue 14

[Michael W5NIG]

> I have been looking though the archives
> in tower talk for info and haven't found anything as yet about my spacing 
> question.
> I also emailed Force 12 but haven't received a response yet.
> I have a Force 12 C3 and just acquired a used Cushcraft D40 rotatable 
> dipole for 40 meters.
> I want to mount the 40 meter dipole above the C3 on the same mast.  I 
> would like to know
> the minimum spacing to avoid interaction and also if I should orient the 
> dipole so it is
> parallel with the boom of the C3.  Anyone have experience with spacing the 
> same or similar
> antennas ?
>
> thanks,
> Bob
> K6UJ

   ....Bob I ran an old Mosley linear loaded rotatable 40 above my force 12 
5ba at ten foot with
no problems.   After that ran an M2  three element linear loaded 40 about 10 
foot above same
multibander with no interaction.    ....though it very well could have been 
closer to 11.