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

[Dick Williams]

Dave,

If you are not planning on stacking another antenna on the tower, why not
move the 40M dipole up higher and utilize the additional 7 ft to get the
40M rotatable dipole a bit higher up?  That tower seems to have similar
specs to my old US Tower HDX-54 that I have had up close to 20 years.  Like
yourself, I have a 20 ft mast and the rotor (Tailtwister) is mounted in the
tower with 3 or so feet of mast in the tower.  I use the tower to hold two
Force 12 Magnum antennas.  One is a 7 element 12 M beam about 1 ft above
the top of the tower, and the other is an 8 element 10 M beam about 3 ft
from the top of the mast (the U Bolt and saddle that holds the truss cable
for the 10M beam is at the top of the mast).  I live on top of a hill, and
have had winds in excess of 70 MPH on more than one occasion.

Have fun erecting the tower.  For the first time since I erect it, I had to
do some maintenance last week, and it was sure nice to be able to lower it
down!

Dick, K8ZTT

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:38 PM Gary K9GS <k9gs at gjschwartz.com> wrote:

> 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
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> -----------------------------------> -----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>
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