[TowerTalk] Second Tower Placement Recommendation

[John Simmons]

If you are going to do a wire Yagi with inverted vee elements, be 
certain to carefully model it using EZNEC, 4NEC2, etc. The rules of 
thumb for Yagi design yield a very, very poor antenna. I spent hours 
trying to create a good antenna and finally cried UNCLE and got help 
from someone that had done this before. When dipole elements are not 
horizontal but an inverted vee instead, size-able vertically polarized 
radiation takes place. Please plan carefully!

Another thought is to build a broadside array instead, putting your 
second tower at the proper place.

-John NI0K

Keith Dutson wrote:
> Thanks for the many informative responses.  One question was the size of the
> Heliax.  I should have said LDF4-50A.  I do have about 170 feet of LDF5.
>
> The best idea I have gleaned is to place the second tower so that a line
> tied between the two can be used to hang a series of dipoles to make a
> stationary multi-element Yagi.
>
> 73, Keith NM5G
>
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