[TowerTalk] Interesting development

[David Robbins]

well, if the coax from each comes all the way to the shack you can use a T connector and manual coax switch to switch them in and out to compare.  or if you have remote switches like the rcs-8v you can just energize two relays at once to combine them.


Oct 2, 2013 01:28:25 PM, w1srd at yahoo.com wrote:

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.
>
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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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