[TowerTalk] Second Tower Placement Recommendation

[John Simmons]

Exactly what I'm doing except for 40M.

-de John NI0K

k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>>    If I had that kind of available tower height and the flexibility to
> place them that you do, I'd make the 2nd tower also 150 feet tall and position it such that a rope between it and the 1st tower pointed to Europe, with enough distance between the two towers that I could string Inverted-V elements for either 80m or 160m to make a 3-element wire Yagi hung from the rope.? The coax to the driven element could be run back along the rope to one of the towers.
>      Excellent idea! K7ML in Montana had two 195' rotating towers with a catenary between them pointing to EU. I think his wire inverted vee beam had 6 or 7 elements on 80M. He also had a high H - normally a good low band antenna. On the beam, SP7GIQ was S6-8. He was unreadable on the Lazy H.
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>      BTW there were six F12 C-3s on one tower and four F12 4L 40's on the other one.
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> Cheers,Steve     K7LXC
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