I have a 5-element 10-meter yagi hung from a tall pine tree. It's not very high, just about 20 feet. I used a piece of 1/4 inch wire rope as a support cable. It goes up and over a limb and back down
Hmmmm, Jon, this second idea sounds really intriguing ! How do you get the rotor from spinning around (and not just the mast/antenna) ? Also, how do you H20-proof the rotor? Wouldn't the guy wire hav
Don't think you actually have to hang the ROTATOR itself upside down. Just mount the normal top side to the fixed guy by using a short vetircal pipe mast welded to the center of a long horizontal pi
Making the cross pipe long will indeed reduce rotor instability but also degrade the beam quite a lot. The same will happen if the cable is made of conducting material, especially when the elements a
Peter--yes this is a compromise--but as long as the cross pipe is significantly shorter than the driven element and the spacing is on the order of a few feet a meter or so (and the tree-to-tree suppo
Hi Mike, I think Richard had a couple of extra cables to stabilize things, going off diagonally or perpendicular to the main cable to other trees. Maybe the rotor wasn't inverted -- it's been a few y
I see an interesting directional indicating problem with the beam attached under the rotator. When you push the control for the rotator to rotate "clockwise", the normal part of the rotator that turn
Assuming a S (or N) STOP, South will still be South, and North will still be North. The SIMPLE solution is to paste and E over the W and a W over the E on the indicator. Tom N4KG On Tue, 10 Sep 2002