[VHFcontesting] Antenna stacking distance

[Steve Meuse]

Ed Swiderski, KU4BP expunged (ku4bp at triad.rr.com):

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm in the planning stages on a home station and was wondering about the
> stackiing distance for antennas for multiple bands. My plan is for 3, maybe
> 4 on one mast or two medium size towers with 2 each. I have 16el on 2m, 18el
> on 432 and plans are for 5el on 6m and 220 is in the works. I've seen a
> couple solutions and was wondering what has worked best for you. One was to
> mount the lower freq beam a distance of half the boom length of the higher
> freq beam that's above it. Another was use the stacking distance
> calculations provided by the manufacturer. Which says to mount the higher
> freq beam at half the stacking distance of the lower beam.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light or provide some links, formaulas etc on the
> proper way to stack multiple beams of different freqs on a single mast? 

Go to http://www.directivesystems.com/ and look under "App Notes". Dave has a really
good article about just what you're asking.

-Steve
N1JFU