three antennas on one 50' tower?

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New to the HF world. I have a 50' tower with two uhf antennas about 28' up and a rotor with a yagi on the top. I want to put and OCF Dipole Antenna up on it as well. I have stayed the tower at the very top.
Will the stays interfere with the HF? I plan to put up a PVC pipe to offset the balum about 4 feet from the side of the antenna.
Anyone have ideas before I climb the tower again.
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If you are only receiving you should be fine. If transmitting as well then you may have interaction among the guy line(s), the tower, and the OCF dipole. Nothing hazardous... but it may result in something other than a balanced, symmetrical transmitting field. Our club did this every year for awhile during Field Day weekend, and then found it was better not to mount the balun near the tower, but instead put one end of the OCF at the tower and the balun feed point elsewhere.
 
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