I personally, myself don't think I would consider spending the time
putting up omni antenna, for a main antenna on 432... when a decent
gain yagi are not very large on 432.. a 8' yagi will have 7+ db of
gain over the loops...
W9RAY
Ray J
en44gt
www.w9ray.org
David wrote:
> I am getting together some 432 stuff in hope I can get a tower worker in the
> near future. I have decided to put SQ-432 stack on the side of my tower. I
> plan to use LMR-400 type coax. My tower is 70 ft. and I plan to put the
> antennas at about 50 ft as the guy that will be doing the job will use a
> bucket that only has about a 50 ft reach. I will not use a tower preamp as
> they don't have longevity here due to lightning. I am thinking that going
> higher would not be any better anyway as the coax loss would be greater than
> gain from height. At 50 ft, the antennas will be above the tree line. I
> would like some comments and suggestions about my thoughts.
>
> David
> KE4YYD
>
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