[amsat-bb] When exactly is a non-conductive mast necessary?

[John Kludt]

Cathryn,

I am going to bow out of this discussion.  I thought you had asked a
question based on physics but that is clearly not where the discussion is
going.  The current satellites are actually very forgiving.  Like a friend
of mine likes to say, "If your SWR is less than 10:1 - call CQ!"  There is
a long tradition in Amateur Radio of doing whatever works.  Maybe not the
best electrical engineering effort, maybe not even close, but if it works,
what the heck.

Happy New Year and I hope to see you on the birds.

73,

John



On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:03 AM Bill Booth via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> On 2019-12-31 12:00 a.m., Andy via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> > I used a copper boom for many years.
> > The antennas were oriented in an "X" pattern.
>
> Same here.  Run coax along boom too.  Been like that since ???forever.
> Installed
> my Crushcraft pair like that when I purchased them in 80's and still
> working today.
>
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