Alan,
What fun to be apart of such a design. If my ship comes in, I have a
similar design for a station in the Southeast corner of Wyoming; about 100
miles north of Denver. It's fun to dream but exciting to be in on the
design.
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:13 PM
Subject: Helping with design of a super station
> Good afternoon all,
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>
> A good friend of mine who currently lives in Hawaii will be moving to a
> farm
> that he just bought in northern Florida. The whole purpose for buying the
> farm is to assemble a world class station. I am working with him on the
> design of the station, and the purchase of all of the equipment. He will
> be
> putting up 6 towers, 3 of which will be 200 feet tall. The shortest
> tower
> will be 106 feet tall, and will hold a SteppIr DB42. Stan will end up
> with
> a stack of 4 over 4 over 4 on 40 meters, and 6 over 6 over 6 on 20. All
> of
> the other bands, except 80 meters, will have 2 stacked yagis at various
> heights. The baddest antenna of the bunch will be a full size 3 element
> 80
> meter yagi, at about 150 feet. As you can imagine, the station will
> require
> the largest rotors made. He has just purchased 3 prop pitch rotors
> costing
> $5000 each. The system will also use large ring rotors for the lower
> antennas in a given stack. He estimates that the entire tower and antenna
> system will cost him over $250,000, including about 2,000 feet of hard
> line.
> The runs from his shack to the towers will use inch and 5/8 Andrew hard
> line. In addition to the tower runs, he will need another thousand feet
> of
> 7/8 inch hard line. I have to say it has been an absolute blast to help
> with the design of the station. We hope to have the station pretty well
> up
> and running by the end of next year. When asked what Stan was going to
> grow
> on his farm, he replied lots of aluminum and steel, Hi.
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Alan/KD7GC
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