[Antennas] Guy wire insulator spacing.

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 18:50:07 -0500

If you are putting a beam on the top of the tower, you dont need
any insulators in the guys wires...

Insulators IN guy wires are only needed IF the tower itself will
be a radiator OR the guy wires resonant at an active freq used
by an antenna on the tower (yagi OR wire antenna)...

As long as you ground the guy wires at gnd and to the tower itself,
this will cause the guys to be non resonant to any band you want to
use...NOW if you intend to hang dipoles, etc off the side, that may
be a different issue.....but with only a yagi on top, you do not need
insulators.

Chris
WB5ITT

"F.R. Ashley" wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Can someone please give me the distance between insulators in guy wire that will guy a tower with a triband (10/15/20) beam?
> 
> Thanx
> WB4M Buddy
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