Hi Richard!
Yes, I tried it over 20 years ago, and it works fine. Since that time
I've gone to a multi-tower station, so no need for those trix any more.
My lower mast had a large 20 meter monobander mounted on it.
Be sure you use masts with adequate strangth (especially the "regular"
mast thru the tower). Just as in your drawing, I used two short
horizontal masts and lots of u-bolts to attach the lower mast to the
"regular" mast.
73
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Richard M. Thorne wrote:
> 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
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