hi - one thing I have considered doing when I get to do what you are doing,
is to mount a 3-element steppir on a swing or other mount that will give 180
degrees of travel - then you use that '180' button on your steppir
controller to get the rest. For example, from here (W6) I would mount it so
that it swung from 90 to 0 to 270 to cover EU, all of the US, and back to JA
and the pacific, and pick up SA and VK/ZL off the 180 side (which I often do
anyway with my single steppir). You would also have less potential
interaction than you would with a traditional tribander, since each antenna
is a monobander wherever it is tuned for. And you could put them on the same
band and stack them...
hope this helps! - jeff wk6i
At 09:50 AM 6/13/2005, Dick, WN3R wrote:
>I am putting up a 120' SSV Lattice Self Supporting tower. It's 12 feet
>wide at the base and about 2.5 feet at the top. The MonstIR will be
>the main HF antenna for 6-40 meters. I am thinking about adding a
>small tri-bander at the 70-80' level as a multiplier antenna for SO2R
>operation. Because of the size of the tower a TIC ring seems to be
>out of the question. Is the tower too wide for the yagi to be mounted
>on a leg or side mount? Is it advisable to put this 2 or element yagi
>on a rotator? Is this a stupid idea?
--
Jeff Stai jds@twistedoak.com
Twisted Oak Winery http://www.twistedoak.com/
Rocketry Org. of CA http://www.rocstock.org/
Amateur Radio WK6I ~ Calaveras County, CA
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