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Hello Alan, Jay, Warren, et all,
Thanks for your replies to my question concerning a
"T" antenna.
As you had suggested, I plan to use Dacron rope
between the
end insulators and the towers. The insulators
are commercial
ones that I "liberated" from a ship's HF antenna, so they should
be fine for my application. I do intend to
transmit at some time
in the future, but for now the antenna will be
used for receiving.
The top loading will be three wires, one from each
of the towers,
converging at a common point midway between them,
which by
luck is also over a naturally wet area of
my property. There will
be a total length of 190 feet of horizontal top
loading, the ends
being slightly higher than the central common
point.
I plan on using a multiple rod grounding system at the feed point,
along with tieing into the # 8 bonding ground wires interconnecting
the three towers. Those bonding wires also
connect to the mains
grounds at both my house and the shop, about 100
feet apart, so
I'm confident that I've got a pretty good ground
system.
73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
Solar and wind
powered
EN93dr
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