[TowerTalk] Upside down mast

[rthorne@arn.net (Richard M. Thorne)]

I've been doing alittle thinking on masts.  A while back someone
told me about, what I call an upside down mast.  It looks like this:


                        |
                        |
                        |
                        | <----Regular Mast
                     ___|
                     |  |
                     |__|
                     | | | <-----Tower
 Lower Mast--------> | | |      
                     | | |
                       | |
                       | |

This is not a very good illustration but hopefully it depicts my 
thoughts.  Basically its similar to a side mount except that another
mast is going down (assume the top 10' of tower is unguyed).

Has anybody tried this?, it maybe a good way to maximize the mast 
that you have.  I was thinking of putting a tribander on the top mast
and a 2 element 40 on the lower mast. 

        
73,
Richard Thorne - WB5M
Amarillo, TX

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