[TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it?

[Raymond Benny]

You paid big bucks for a good mast. 7ft sticking up won't hurt a thing.
Besides, you may want to add another antenna in the future.

Ray,
N6VR/W7YA

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:56 PM Wes Attaway <wesattaway at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I would leave it in place because someday you might want to put a vertical
> up there.
>
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> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> David
> Winarsky
> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 8:39 PM
> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it?
>
> I'm putting up my first tower, a LM-354HDSP with a Steppir DB11 and a JK 40
> meter horizontal dipole, both in the same mast. I have a 20 ft 2 in OD mast
> from Tashjian and am wondering whether I should cut off the unused length
> or
> leave it?
>
> Karl at Tashjian suggested I install the rotator plate 3 ft below the top
> of
> the tower and the DB11 2 ft above the top, with the JK40 8 ft above that
> (10
> ft from the top of the tower). That will leave 7 ft of the mast unused.
>
> Do you folks recommend I leave the extra 7ft of the mast in place or cut it
> off?
>
> Appreciate the input and any other comments or suggestions on my plan.
>
> 73,
> David K6ZD
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