[TowerTalk] Triband Stacking Distance or antenna height?

[Richard Thorne]

I've been following the mail on this subject.

I'm going to start my new tower this summer.  The base and anchors are 
already in.  It's going to be a 137' rotating 55g tower with three F12 
C31XR's stacked.

I've been using HFTA to come up with the best compromise heights 
(compromise as I'm trying to get the best results on all 3 bands).

Then it dawned on me.  Should I be worried about stacking results or 
individual heights.  Isn't the height of an antenna for a specific band 
at a certain time of day more of an advantage than the combined 
stacking?, and of course it's still a compromise since we're talking 
about tribanders.  Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to try to come up 
with the best stacking distances for my location, but it seems to me 
that the most important feature of a stack is having 3 different heights 
to choose from, isn't it?

I sure wish the project was finished, it would have come in handy this 
past weekend.

Rich - N5ZC