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

[Gary K9GS]

I'd have to study this a bit more but why not put a 3 ele 6m beam at the top and stack with the DB11 on 6m?73,Gary K9GS
-------- Original message --------From: Raymond Benny <rayn6vr at gmail.com> Date: 11/22/20  10:23 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: wesattaway at bellsouth.net Cc: Tower Talk <TowerTalk at contesting.com>, David Winarsky <david at winarsky.com> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cut off extra 7 ft of mast or leave it? 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/W7YAOn 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.>>      ----------------------------------->       Wes Attaway (N5WA)> (318) 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA> Computer/Cellphone Forensics>       AttawayForensics.com>      -----------------------------------> -----Original Message-----> 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> _______________________________________________>>>> _______________________________________________> TowerTalk mailing list> TowerTalk at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk>> _______________________________________________>>>> _______________________________________________> TowerTalk mailing list> TowerTalk at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk>______________________________________________________________________________________________TowerTalk mailing listTowerTalk at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk