[TowerTalk] [CQ-Contest] Stacking on separate towers, take off angles?

[n8de at thepoint.net]

Frank had 5 or 6 towers in the echelon ... all spaced identically, and  
in a row through his vineyards.



Quoting john at kk9a.com:

> I thought that W6KPC had a single tower with horizontal and vertical
> stacked yagis.
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [CQ-Contest] Stacking on separate towers, take
> off angles?
> From:    n8de at thepoint.net
> Date:    Thu, March 14, 2013 10:55 am
> To:      john at kk9a.com
> Cc:      TOWERTALK at contesting.com
>          ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca
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> Frank, W6KPC, had multiple towers with yagis in 'echelon' phase.
>
> There was an article in QST many years ago, with a cover photo.
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> Someone might be able to do a search and find the article.
>
> 73
> Don
> N8DE
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> Quoting john at kk9a.com:
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>> Stacking using separate random towers is unlikely to produce any useful
>> gain however it is great for beaming in two directions.
>>
>> John KK9A
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>> To:	TOWERTALK at contesting.com
>> Subject:  Re: [TowerTalk] [CQ-Contest] Stacking on separate towers,
>> take off angles?
>> From:	Cqtestk4xs at aol.com
>> Date:	 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
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>> There's the rub...they may work.  Unless you can analyze them and
>> include
>> data for length of feedline, distance and terrain it's all guess  work.
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>> Make one feedline 1/2 wavelength and you'll have a great local ant  but
>> one
>> that pretty well sucks for DX.  Plus, if they are more than a
>> wavelength apart
>> the "stacking effect" starts to drop.
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>> However, it never hurts to try.
>>
>> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
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>> by 1In a message dated 3/14/2013 10:34:25 A.M. Coordinated Universal
>> Tim,
>> jpklemola at gmail.com writes:
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>> No  problem.
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>> Just connect them and if they work as separate antennas, they  pretty
>> often work stacked,  too.
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