[TowerTalk] SteppIR and HOA's

[Bill Straw via TowerTalk]

After one season now of contesting with a 2-el SteppIR I'm happy with it ! I really wanted to move my station to my mountain cabin, in the midst of 120 other cabins builtthere for "the view". Honestly! Tough crowd, tough HOA (with an architectural committee) for a ham wanting to put up a yagi. The next thing up from a rotatable dipole is the 2-el SteppIR. That is as far as I was going to push it.Even a small C-3 (with 6 visible elements) seemed like a stretch. I gathered some actual photos off of the internet, had drawings made of the antenna and the cabin. Most non-hams have mental images of huge towers and big yagis. The reaction to the 2-el waspositive and quick. The tower/yagi can only be extended for contests, and the yagi has to betaken off of the tower May 1 - Oct 1 for the busy summer season. But the wires in the trees arealways there and ready to go :) Photos on QRZ.com 73, Bill KO7AA on Mt Lemmon in southern Arizona