George, re your writeup below:
"Instead of getting married, why not just find some woman you don't like and
give her half your stuff?"
I can argue this is definitely related to antennas and towers.....
WB2WIK/6
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Skoubis [SMTP:george.skoubis@verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:10 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [BULK] - RE: [TowerTalk] some random thoughts on the SteppIR
>
>
> RE: 40 meter SteppIR
>
> Well they have a military version of their antenna that is 2 elements
> from 3.5 - 7.0 mhz, 3 elements from 7.0 - 13.0 and 4 elements from 13.5
> - 30 mhz.
>
> It's on a 33 foot boom. I think it's around 18-20k but I don't
> remember, I didn't pay too much attention to the price since this
> antenna would also cost me at least 1/2 of my possessions in a divorce
> settlement.
>
> This is their distributor for the big antenna...
> http://www.monteriallc.com/monstir/monstir_feat.htm
>
> I have the 3 element up for over a year and I've been very happy with
> it...
>
> 73 de George / KF9YR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mel Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:26 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] some random thoughts on the SteppIR
>
> Hmm... I just put up 10/15/20 monobanders on my 150' guyed tower... just
> too
> high and inaccessible to take a chance on a SteppIR... but I have a
> "problem" with the tuning of the 20M antenna... and it has to come back
> down
> for a "tune-up"... makes you appreciate retuning with a software patch!
>
> But I have a 50' selfstanding tower I think I'm going to use with a 3 el
> steppIR for WARC/6 and high-angle 10/15/20... at that height I'm not too
> worried if I have unexpected maintenance...
>
> After a few years... maybe i'll consider the 6 el long boom SteppIR on
> the
> big tower ( Yes I know they only make a 4... I did say in a few years
> ;-) )
>
> I'll tell you what I would like to see... a SteppIR for 30/40... hard to
> make a smaller yagi work on the whole of 40M... something that could be
> tuned for each band segment would be teriffic... and passive antennas
> are
> not too reliable on that band anyway... Anyone know if such a project is
> comtemplated at SteppIR?
>
> > >>I wouldn't buy a Steppir. Moving parts outdoors, out of reach, make
> > me nervous. Just think how much more could go wrong.
> > Barry W2UP
> >
>
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