[TowerTalk] Second antenna options?

[Jim Hargrave]

Rick,

I have had good results using inverted V and slopers off the tower. I placed
insulators in my upper guy wires and feed them with a single 50 ohm coax at
the top apex. The shield is bonded to the tower leg at the feed point. I
have tuned them to 80/60/40 & 12m.

If you tune one of them to an active band covered by the beam, it might skew
the results. I have never done that so can't provide any insight. However my
40M sloper works on 15m and does not seem to interfere with the 15m beam
pattern.  But that's just a non-engineered observation.

    73s de Jim
       W5IFP




  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Rick Kiessig
  > Sent: July 03, 2012 11:59 PM
  > To: towertalk at contesting.com
  > Subject: [TowerTalk] Second antenna options?
  >
  > With a tower in-place that doesn't have enough height to stack a second
  > beam, and without another high spot to use for something like
  > an elevated
  > dipole, what are some good options for a second antenna that
  > covers one or
  > two of the same bands as the primary beam?
  >
  >
  >
  > 73, Rick ZL2HAM