Hey all, wondering if anyone has erected one of these. My rough math shows this...30 ft tower minus 3ft to rotor plate = 27 ft + 10 ft mast = 37 ft to boom. 1/2 of the driven element is about 9 ft so subtracting that brings me down to 28 feet so I have a 2 foot overlap with tower. The driven element will be just under 3 feet away from the tower since the overall boom length is 6 feet. Thanks.
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PDL2 (Y-Quad) installation - driven element overlap w tower.
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Got the antenna assembled and got good swr readings on the ground. Note the tune knob sensitivity is coarse but I swept it from 26.965 to way past 27.405 and it never rose above 1.5:1.Pouring concrete for the tower base this weekend.
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Looks to me like you're on the way to good communicating!
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Your going to have a metal mast with coax running down it, so the tower sticking into the antenna is not much different as far as skewing the radiation pattern and affecting the match. That's the way the antenna was designed to mount and even if you use an insulated mast you still have coax going down the mast causing the same problems. Just put it up and use it knowing thats how every other PDLII is installed.
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