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Re: [TowerTalk] Cost effective Tower height

Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cost effective Tower height
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:09:23 +0000
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Plus - the second antenna might not need to cover all the bands if he 
chooses the heights carefully.

Steve G3TXQ

On 02/12/2011 15:56, K1TTT wrote:
> Of course he did, but there is no way to fill the nulls with a single beam.
> You can mount it on a crankup and search vertically for the best signal, but
> that seems to be more expensive to me and not as flexible.  You can cover
> lots more elevation angles with a second antenna at about half the height of
> the top one... so my recommendation is to keep that in mind because its much
> easier to design that in from the start than find out later when you have
> more money that the tower you got can't handle it.
>
>
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