[amsat-bb] HF and Satellite antennas on one mast?

Rich Gopstein rich at ourowndomain.com
Thu Jun 11 15:10:28 UTC 2020


I'm considering putting up a tower to get my satellite antennas off the
ground.  As long as I'm doing that, I'm considering putting a small HF beam
up there too (maybe the 2 or 3 element SteppIR?).

Has anyone done that?  Do you put the HF antenna below the AZ/EL setup?
How much room would I leave between them?  BTW - I have the larger M2
satellite antennas, not the LEO-pack, so the antennas are mounted near the
middle of the booms, not at the ends.

I imagine I'd split the G-5500 into separate AZ and EL rotators, placing
the AZ rotator in the tower.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Rich, KD2CQ


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