[Antennas] Guy wire insulator spacing.

[Karl Kanalz]

Your best solution, Buddy, is to use an insulated guy wire (call "Texas 
Towers" in Plano, Texas for more info), but I think you'll find if you read 
the ARRL Antenna Handbook (later years, often called the "Antenna 
Compendium"), you see they recommend breaking up the conductive guy wires 
with some hefty "Johnny Balls" with guy wire lengths that are under a 
quarter-wavelength long at the highest frequency you plan to operate.... 
Usually, an odd fraction of that highest wavelength.....

Karl K - W8TIF
McKinney, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From:	F.R. Ashley [SMTP:frashley@earthlink.net]
Sent:	Saturday, September 07, 2002 5:57 PM
To:	antennas@mailman.qth.net
Subject:	[Antennas] Guy wire insulator spacing.

Hello all,

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