[Antennas] Tower alternatives

[John Hensley]

I guess I'm embarassed now :-) ... the dipole measures and phases areobvious to me but what I am unsure about is how to have a strong guyand at the same time, a coax connection that does not corrode or weatheraway.  Any stranded steel rope is going to wick water up to the connectorso a crimped connector would be iffy after some time; dissimilar metalswill encourage galvanic action; so I guess this is simply a choice of theleast offensive maintenance style ??

From: K3vw at aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:23 -0400
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Tower alternatives
To: w5jv at hotmail.com








Yes John, you have just re-invented the wheel !! We have been feeding our 
guy wires as inverted V's for about 49 years now. Many other hams have also. 
They work good. We don't talk about them because they are so simple!! Willy 
K3VW
 

In a message dated 9/30/2009 1:12:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
w5jv at hotmail.com writes:

The 
  feedback on towers has been great.  Thanks again to everyone.
Are 
  there any caveats on using the guy wires as inverted-V dipoles?If each guy 
  wire had four equally spaced legs, two sets of guy wirescould be configured as 
  two sets of 80m and 40m inverted-V antennas180 degrees out of phase on each 
  band.  Has anyone tried this.
John           
                 
  
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