Alan, is it possible to use more than one of the stepir antennas 
at the same time with a single rig on a given frequency? Hope to 
hear that station out here on the left coast when it gets going.  
Best 73, Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R.  Downing" <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:49:23 -0700
Subject: Super station update

Several weeks ago Stan put up the first tower of his super 
station in
northern Florida.  a SteppIr DB18E sits at about 98 feet.  This 
week has
been devoted to digging holes and pouring the concrete for the 
next 3
towers.  All together, this week's pours totaled about 50 cubic 
yards of
high-strength concrete.  The 3 towers will be placed on their 
bases and
bolted down.  He will be able to raise the 3 towers to their full 
extention
in about 3 weeks when the concrete reaches about 90% of their 
ultimate per
square inch load ratings.  Once the 3 towers are up and 
populated, the base
and guy anchor holes will be dug and poured for the first of the 
3 200 foot
rotating towers.  That tower will hold a stack of 6 3 element 
SteppIrs,
which has never been done.  Engineers and technicians from 
SteppIr will
spend 3 or 4 days at Stan's new QTH to assemble and tune the 6 
yagis so that
they will operate at their peak performance.  Stan's so-called 
SteppIr tower
will be featured in SteppIr's advertisements.  The gain figures 
for that
stack come out to about 24 DBD on all bands 20 thru 10 meters.  
He will have
a tremendous signal, particularly when he runs the legal limit of 
1500 watts
into them.



Stay tuned for further updates.





Alan - N7MIT