One simple way of looking at the seeming greater independence of VHF is to
take scaling into account. A 420 yagi with a two foot separation from a two
meter yagi is roughly the same thing as twenty foot separation between a ten
and twenty meter yagi. But our eyeballs don't see it that way.
73, Guy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@harborside.com>
To: "TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Ant proximity
>
>
> Over the years I've seen lots of postings here about not having
> one antenna too close to the other. I know it's given me fits
> when trying to orient different antennas for different bands.
> While reading an old QST this morning, I was looking at the
> results of a VHF contest and saw several antenna configurations.
> Some of these VHF/UHF arrays have so many antennas crammed into a
> small area on top of a tower that there surely must be some
> interaction between them. There are H stacks of 6 meter, with 2,
> 432, 1296, etc, etc all on the same mast. How do they get away
> with that? If we made HF stacks like that, they would never
> work. Or at least the computers say they won't. 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
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