In a similar fashion, I put up a 13 element 144MHZ beam over a 3 element
6-meter beam, and used a Radio shack rotor (no thrust bearing, just mast
on mast) to turn the thing. It turned, but the RS rotor was
S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D! With each turn it ended up about 5 degrees off cal
somehow. Plus, the poor little motor just did not sound good. So,
after a couple of weeks, I removed the 6 beam (could never get it to
tune correctly anyway, due to all the close-by objects).
So, yes, you can make it work -- but for the money you dump into RS
rotors, you'd be better off saving up for something with a little more
muscle.
73, and good luck!
- Josh
KF4YLM
Zack Widup wrote:
> There was a pair of articles in Ham Radio Magazine years ago called
> "Stacking Yagis Is A Science." I believe it was written by Joe Reisert,
> W1JR. I have copies of the articles somewhere.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 AA4ZZ@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>> There is some great information about stacking antennas of different bands
>> on the Directive Systems website: _www.direcivesystems.com_
>> (http://www.direcivesystems.com) , App Notes, "How to Plan The
>> Installation of Multiple VHF
>> antennas on One Mast"
>>
>>
>> 73 Paul AA4ZZ
>>
>
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