[TowerTalk] antenna choices

[Jim Lux]

On 4/10/15 3:37 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
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> I'm wondering if there have been any attempts at more than 4 element
> SteppIR's?
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> I'm happy with my 4L but it would be nice to have some more smoke. What
> might be interesting are some longer boom more limited band combinations,
> with higher performance e.g.  6 L on 15/12/10 or 5 L on
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> 20/17 or 6 L on 17/12 on 42' boom (the one I want, since my modeling so far
> for an interlaced 5/5 design isn't succeeding).
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I suspect that FluidMotion has to pick and choose which products that 
they want to make and sell.  Clearly, if someone wanted to, they could 
buy two 3 el SteppIRs and put them end to end with some sort of 
mechanical contraption.

There's probably not enough customer interest to justify the design time 
(and inevitable support costs) for a limited market item.
You might want a 6 element on a 42 foot boom, but maybe someone else 
wants a top band SteppIR, and the designers are currently busy trying to 
figure out to build a 40 meter long plastic structure to support the 
moving element tape.

They may well come out with such a thing later.  Most companies start 
with 1 product, then gradually add products to the lineup.  That's what 
FluidMotion did so far.