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Lloyd Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Lloyd Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 May 2014 21:34:56 -0400
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One of those stations must be VE6AO.
W3LPL, with 19 towers no more than 199 feet, 6 inches tall, is about 17 
miles north of me.  K3ZO, about 15 miles southeast of me, has a 3-element 
80-meter beam, but he says it is only about 25 KHz wide for a reasonable SWR 
and a reasonable directivity pattern.  W3LPL has an 80-meter quad of some 
kind, and I don't know how it is tuned, or switched from the phone to the CW 
portion of 80.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Colin McDonald
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 6:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Helping with design of a super station

and since you can't take it with you, one might as well have fun while one
can!
sounds similar to a couple super stations we have up in these parts...one
consisting of 15 towers ranging in height from 100 feet to 220 feet and many
prop pitch rotators, ring roters, many stacked arrays, thousands and
thousands of feet of hard line...then there is the station which has
something like 15 operating stations with each having it's own legal limit
amplifier on every band...he has a computer controled antenna switching
system so any station can use any antenna or combinations of any
antennas...included is a phased vertical array on 80 and a 4 element 80M
yaggie at 200 feet...though that one is down for the moment.it is primarily
a contest station, but he does have his own shack in a separate building
that has access to all the antennas via the computer control system.
He owns a crane to perform antenna work.  He is also the designer and seller
of the alfa spid rotator series.
all one guy too not a club and completely self financed.  Like i said, might
as well have fun when you can since you can't take it with you

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
>
>
>
> 

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