[TowerTalk] effect of two wire antennas end to end

[k7awbgoog at gmail.com]

I have 135 feet between my two towers and might put two dipoles or double bazookas between them, end to end  using one rope.  I would drop the feed lines straight down to the ground.  Probably one would be 40 meters and the other 30 meters since I don’t have  antennas for those bands up yet and I need a quick job to start working the rash of DXpeditions now that I miss on those two bands.  The two antennas take up about 105-117 feet or so horizontally so I would have 13-30 feet of rope to distribute between the middle and the two ends.

Is there any interaction between the two wire antennas put end to end?   Does it matter how close they are to each other?

I would use 1:1 baluns for each so there would be some weight up there and a catenary curve to all of it.

Since my towers are in line at 305 degrees towards Japan, the wire antennas would face EU and ZL-VK land.

Any thoughts on this?  


Steve Sala
K7AWB
Nine Mile Falls, WA