At 08:24 AM 11/28/06, you wrote: >Here here!! > >The 1151-2 Station Master sells for around $650 and from what I can find >on the net the HS9-43050 Hustler antenna sells for $500. > >Steve, I think your closer to affording it than you think.
Not quite. See below. >Do it right once and worry about it again in 20 years. Very true. But I still prefer side mounted dipole arrays. >-Sean Personally I wouldn't put a stationmaster at the top of a tower and expect to get maximum life from it. For one thing, I don't want to be the lightning rod. I'd side mount it or mount it on a crossmember, and add an anti-sway arm to the install. This way the antenna has top bracing (and lasts a helluva lot longer) and someone else takes the hit from Thor's hammer. I just include the anti-sway arm as part of the purchase price and consider the sum of the two as the cost of the antenna. Mike WA6ILQ
