[TowerTalk] Loading guy wires

[trentkd5ia at aol.com]

Dave-
My tower is a 70' Rohn foldover, guyed in 4 directions.  On each of the top guys, I placed insulators at the top, bottom, and center to feed them as 40 meter dipoles.  The top and bottom insulators are spaced to be resonant a little high in frequency on 40, and all that is needed to resonate each one is a short stinger wire attached at each end (about a foot long in my case).  I use a remote relay switch to select which direction I need.   For more info, look in the Antenna Handbook at the K1WA array.  Also, the steel guys work just fine as radiators.  Good luck.
73 de Trent  K5XM


-----Original Message-----
From: dave arruzza via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
To: towertalk at contesting.com <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 17, 2022 4:07 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Loading guy wires

I have two guyed towers going up at my new station.
Both 70 footers 
I would hate to have all the guy wire just being used to hold up the towers
I think some of it could be used as a radiator. 
Opinions / comments please 
73Dave W1CTN 

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