Florida has about the highest incidence of lightning strikes in the country. 
So there is the concommitant amount of QRN on the low bands.  That's why 
he'll want to put up some serious low-frequency receive-only antennas.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Colin McDonald
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 6:37 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Helping with design of a super station

I would think florida would be about the best possible place to set up in
north america for good dx propigation.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:13 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Helping with design of a super station

> Good afternoon all,
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>