[TowerTalk] Interesting development

[Doug Scribner]

This may be the article that Pete is referring to...

http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/dissimilarants.htm

But... I believe that this only works for a single band so you would have to 
switch in different delay lines.

Doug - K1ZO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dyer" <w1srd at yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting development


> This is probably obvious to most, but how would you do a simple combiner 
> to test stacking dissimilar antennas before investing in a Stackmatch or 
> similar?
> 73,
> Steve
> W1SRD
>> I think you'll be wasting your time with the Stackmatch, unless you 
>> adjust the feedline lengths to compensate for the different positions of 
>> the driven elements relative to your target directions. WX0B wrote a 
>> little article about doing this - probably somewhere on the AS web site.
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>> On 10/1/2013 12:36 PM, W5XB wrote:
>>> Yes Doug, I am sure I was on the Force...after my “oops” on Saturday 
>>> morning....I checked—twice. When you home the Steppir elements, there is 
>>> NO signal, not even noise—hihi.
>>>
>>> Ian, I think you have the best explanation—some kind of coupling...I 
>>> forgot to add, when I selected the Force it was at 045, the Steppir on 
>>> the roof was at 010...so they were “close” to the same direction.
>>>
>>> After this development, I am putting the Steppir on top at 67 ft, and 
>>> the Force 35 ft below and actually couple them with an Array Solutions 
>>> stack match and see how that develops...while working on getting a big 
>>> tower, or Bertha up with stacked Steppers at 150 and 75.
>>>
>>> 73s,
>>>
>>> Grant
>>> W5XB
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