[TowerTalk] 100ft mobile on 160

[Djordan (personal)]

I would use stainless hose clamps with 1/8" stainless cable and shunt each section as they are raised into position. With top loading wires you should a good experience.  You could also hang a small four wire cage from the top.  The wires don't have to heavy gauge, just strong enough to support their own weight.  

Please report back what you end up doing and UR results. 

Have fun,
Dave
Wa3gin
Www.w4ava.org 

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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> John,
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> Before deciding it isn't going to work and doing something different, I would try it first with some top loading wires and a shunt feed.  I would highly recommend not using it as a support for an inverted V, which will be a really high angle radiator for 160m at that height.
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> 73...Stan, K5GO
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>> On Oct 29, 2014, at 6:37 AM, John E Cleeve <g3jvc at jcleeve.idps.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Good morning,
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>> I have a 100ft galvanised mobile mast by Radio Structures in the UK, the
>> mast has not been used for quite a while and its potential is being wasted.
>> I am considering its use as a "parked" top loaded vertical radiator for 160
>> metres, raising the mast to full height when required. The principles of
>> shunt feed etc. as applied to a fixed mast are well documented in the
>> handbooks, but a telescopic, lattice structure, with all the associated
>> mechanical variables may pose different electrical and continuity problems.
>> I would be grateful for the views of the group.
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>> Sincerely, John G3JVC / GM3JVC.
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