[Antennas] Tower alternatives

n8de at thepoint.net n8de at thepoint.net
Wed Sep 30 13:23:37 EDT 2009


Did this many years ago.
Good thing:  works fine on 80m & 40m

Bad thing:  detuned the yagis above terribly due to harmonic  
resonances in the guys.

I wouldn't do it again.
Don
N8DE

Quoting John Hensley <w5jv at hotmail.com>:

>
> 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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