[TowerTalk] Hy-gain Hy-Tower versus 53 ft Vertical

[Patrick Greenlee]

I have the new style recent manufacture Hy-Tower on top of a metal barn sans 
radials and sans concrete base.  It is a good performer.  I have the 
accessory kits which give you 17M and 160M. It handles 160, 80, 40, 20, 17, 
15, 12, 10M.  17 is just another stub and there are two choices for 160, a 
base coil (bad rep for burning out and in my case a trip up a ladder to 
adjust so not selected) and a 40M trap attached at the top of the 24 ft 
triangular tower portion with a run of wire with length adjusted for 
resonance. The trap keeps you from detuning the 40M performance. I added a 
4-way Phillystran guy setup attached at the top of the triangular tower 
section (24 ft.)

Being in the heart of tornado alley we get wind. You may have seen 
communities near me on TV a while back (Moore, Shawnee, etc. in Oklahoma.) 
We got winds strong enough to fold rollup doors (14x14ft) at both ends of 
the building with the Hy-Tower on it.  I had to replace the doors but not 
the antenna.  More recently wind blew a pair of sliding doors (14x16) off my 
hay barn but the Hy-Tower ( a quarter mile away) shows no damage.

I am close to putting up a tilt over crank up tower to get a hex beam up 
with adjustable height AGL of 33 to 53 ft.  I will be keeping the Hy-Tower 
and the 270 ft OCF Carolina Windom dipole hung off the side of it as my 
experience has been that no single antenna is best for all occasions.

Later, when the temps are more favorable for outside projects, I have two 
more towers to erect and in the meantime antennas to select.  Decisions 
decisions...

Patrick AF5CK

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nelson Wittstock
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Joe Subich, W4TV ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hy-gain Hy-Tower versus 53 ft Vertical

I have a Hy-tower but it has been modified.  I have a beam for the non-warc
bands so I didn't need that part of the Hy-tower.  I took off all the stubs
and extended the mast on top to about 63 feet for use on 80 meters.  There
are about a half mile of radials around the base.  I made a remote switching
box that is mounted at the bottom.  To it I have connected vertical wires
for 30, 17 and 12 meters.  There are fiberglass poles extending the tops of
the wires away from the tower so the wires are not parallel to the tower.  I
have had great success with this arrangement.

Nelson, K8DJC

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