100% going to have to guy it to the mast, lol.<br><br>Are you going to use wire rope or something non-conductive? Wire rope is easy because they have it at home depot, and you can use nuts and bolts with it to tighten it fully.<br>
<br>Just my 2cp..<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John Foege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.foege@gmail.com">john.foege@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's going to be 13 elements on 22 feet. It's going to be heavy, and<br>
yes it will sag at the ends. I'm going to have to guy it to the boom.<br>
<br>
And go no Rich....I'm not going to use the Suez Canal Coax once this<br>
baddy goes up. I've got a 100' spool of Bury-Flex to feed it.<br>
<br>
Once I get this antenna up, some good feedline going to it, and a nice<br>
flat SWR, I can start running 175 watts again and that coupled with<br>
the 13.2 dBd gain and 850 ft elevation, I **SHOULD** hopefully see<br>
some better performance.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately I may run the risk of microwaving Woody's QTH to the<br>
ground, but hey....like Woody said, you've got to have your priorities<br>
straight!! lol<br>
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, <<a href="mailto:djmay@comcast.net">djmay@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> John,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> How am I going to keep your transmissions from baking my QTH like a<br>
> microwave once you get that baby up? And I thought you were loud before!!!<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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><br>
> So the shim stock came in and I've got all three 8' sections stuck together<br>
> EXTREMELY tightly. The boom looks great and is absolutely massive. I took a<br>
> few pictures of the boom up on the drill press and roller stand, but I'm not<br>
> sure the pictures I've attached really do the 24 foot boom justice. It's<br>
> massive in real life. Check it out...let me know what you all think.<br>
> Tomorrow I'm going to drill all the holes and cut the elements and then it's<br>
> on to the t-match. Hopefully this behemoth will be up and on the air for the<br>
> weekend (although I think Dave and I are going to die trying to get this<br>
> sucker up on the roof). John<br>
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