Thanks Joe, some good ideas.
On the thermal cycling we get temperature changes of about 10 degrees C all
year. Now, midwinter we see daytime tems about 27 Centigrade, nightime drops
a couple of degrees. Midsummer sees about 35 C. Do we need to worry about
thermal cycling? We do plan to assemble on Wednesday and put up on Thursday
so should be able to check anyway.
73
Martin - HS0ZED
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Subich, K4IK [mailto:k4ik@subich.com]
Sent: 17 January 2005 21:47
To: 'Martin Sole'
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR installation
Martin,
> Tomorrow myself, HS0ZED, and John, W2YR, will go to the shack of our
> good friend Eddy, HS0/EA4BKA, to assemble and install his new 3 el
> SteppIR. We have allowed ourselves a couple of days to complete the
> job staying overnight in Pattaya which should be fun. I would
> appreciate any comments or suggestions from those that have already
> been through the process regarding anything we need to consider before
> starting.
1) Be careful in attaching the control wires to the terminal
strip. They are not in the "logical" order so check and
double check.
2) Allow the rubber boots that connect the fiberglass tubes
to the element center units to thermally cycle and retighten
them before putting the antenna into place.
3) be careful (and double check) the center pin of the SO-239
socket on the driven element unit. There are reports of
an occasional unit in which the center pin was pushed back
into the box.
> We will install an EF140 at right angles, i.e. parallel to the boom of
> the SteppIR. Is it okay to place this just a few feet away give the
> orientation or do we need to be more careful?
Six feet should be fine. The SteppIR's parasitic elements are insulated
from the boom so there will be no end-loading of the boom that might make it
resonant on or near 40. My modeling shows that both the three and four
element SteppIR are nearly
transparent to 40 meter dipoles.
73,
... Joe, K4IK
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