[K3PZN-List] FD Antenna Lessons Learned (we hope ....)

[Ray Wright]

Thanks Curt you guys have way more experience in knowing what will work and
what will not. I plan on bring all the mast the club has stored here and we
can assemble what is needed and what is not and leave the rest on the
trailer.  We will be bringing the RV and 6x6 with eagle one for eye
catching but probably not needed for operations.   As always thank you all
for any information you can help me with

ray



On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Curt Milton via K3PZN-List <
k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> A few other notes to the team from last year's experience:
>
> (1) At the KB3VWK shelter we were SUCCESSFUL in sharing ONE mast between
> 20m SSB and 40/15m CW.  An inverted V for the latter was hung not many feet
> below the Yagi.  The rigs (FT-3000 and K2) coexisted without any
> interference.  Getting two stations on ONE mast highly successful.
>
>
> (2) I remember 3 rigs last year in the K1RH shelter -- but I don't
> remember how many masts or how they shared them?
>
>
> General rule #1 -- with decent-enough rigs we can share masts if they are
> on DIFFERENT bands.
>
>
> (note if we instead host 15m SSB at KB3VWK we won't be doing 15m CW there
> ....)
>
> (3) Unfortunately yours truly located the two big Yagi antennas much too
> close together last year.  As we wished to use them for CW and SSB on the
> same band at the same time, the result was not pretty.  We need greater
> separation between the Yagis (or even wire antennas for that matter) that
> would operate on the same band.  Whatever that spacing was I think we
> should aim to double it.  (Maybe someone has intel from another large
> operation on what works here?)
>
> (4) One operator insisted in having his own mast .... I remember this
> resulting in a couple extra masts to erect.  (not fun -- read by traffic
> with Larry).  The 80m SSB was strung between those masts as I remember.  I
> can't remember how we deployed the wire for 40m SSB ?
>
>
> FD without trees .... is this called uncivilized or what ??  Ok its part
> of the emergency operations exercise to deal with what you have.
>
>
> CUL maybe I am done thinking about FD for this year's operation.
>
>
> Curt
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