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