I am in the middle of planning (and shortly will be executing) a plan to
put up my second tower. It will be a 70 foot Rohn 45, built strictly to
Rohn's specs. That's not the problem.
The question is "where do I put the shed"?
I am planning to put a 30m monobander and some VHF/UHF stuff up top
(6m/432/1286). All within the engineering specs for windload.
But, I am also planning to drop some lines down from the tower to form part
of an 80 meter four square on the one hand and a 160m single vertical on
the other.
However, to make the VHF stuff work "the best" I am also planning to have
transverters in a small shed "near" the tower.
Well, I've laid out the tower. Now the question is, how close can the shed
be? I want it to be as close to the tower as possible to minimize the
cable runs from the transverters up the tower (even though it will be
hardline).
The shed will be very much mostly non-metallic. There will be some rack
mounts inside and the gear and wiring. That's about it. Is there a
minimum sensible distance? Do I just guess and go on? Some of the locals
say they've shunt fed towers from as close as 15 feet to a house. The shed
is planned to be 10x10.
Larry WO7R
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