[TowerTalk] EHS leads for Phillystran

[Tim Duffy]

Hi Ron:

 

I don’t know what other antennas might be around your guy anchors, but 41 feet of EHS is too long for my taste. My EHS ground leaders “tails” are no more than 12 feet long. 

 

Remember when modeling – all of those 41 foot pieces of EHS are all connected together.

 

73

Tim K3LR

 

From: Ron WV4P [mailto:wv4ptn at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:43 PM
To: Tim Duffy
Cc: K9MA; towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] EHS leads for Phillystran

 

Thanks Tim, I will add supplies for that to the list. Do you think the 41' of EHS at the anchor ends will be OK ? Ron

 

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 3:47 PM Tim Duffy <k3lr at k3lr.com> wrote:

I had a problem with just Preforms attaching to the tower legs connection -
which caused distortion in the pattern of close mounted Yagi's. That is,
Yagi's that were mounted only a few feet above a guy connection point. The
VSWR of the affected Yagi would change with rotation and the effect of three
Preforms connected to the tower was confirmed with modeling. The solution
was to use a bent pin shackle and an insulator right at the tower
connection. You can see it in this view of the middle four element 40 meter
OWA Yagi stack at K3LR:
http://www.k3lr.com/2016/ring.jpg

Using insulators at the tower connection completely solved the pattern
distortion and VSWR changes with rotation.

73
Tim K3LR

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K9MA
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:20 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] EHS leads for Phillystran

i recently put up 70 feet of Rohn 25 using Phillystran. The first 4-5 
feet from the tower are EHS, to minimize the chance of something dropped 
from the tower cutting the Phillystran. From the anchor up to about 15 
feet (vertically) above the ground is EHS. The rest is Phillystran. I 
never tried to figure out whether the lower EHS sections are resonant, 
but they're a long way from the antennas. Seems to work fine.

73,
Scott K9MA



On 10/2/2019 14:11, Ron WV4P wrote:
> Good afternoon !
>
> Having heard enough negative on the Polygon, we have shifted to
> Phillystran..
> What I have read says you must run EHS Leaders (I have Plenty in stock)
but
> not over 50% of the total guy length in EHS.
>
> Doing some modeling (not very good at) and reading, it looks like 41' of
> EHS would work well for not being resonate, being plenty high up to not
> worry about fire / vandals / beavers.
> 41' would also save a good bit of $ on the cost of Phillystran for 5
> towers.
>
> Any advice ? to long ? Just right ?
>                                                        Thanks in advance.
> Ron, WV4P
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