Hi Magnus: Why not just put the GPS antenna at the top of the existing TV mast? http://www.prc68.com/I/Ant.shtml#SBant
Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com > Fellow timenuts, > > You know you are a time-nut when your spring cleanup dutines involves > getting onto the rooftop and clean your GPS antennas. In my case my dual > frequency antenna (really a survey antenna, a Novatel GPS 502 L1/L2) was > due to lack of patience temporarily put up there in a not so fixed > position, so that the wind shifter position and attitude as it slided > down the tiles that it was effectively useless, especially as it was > pointing mostly north into the big GPS hole and putting the antennas > nuling power towards most of the low-attitude sats. Let's just say that > I'm not too proud of that mounting... I know better, I know far > better... but I am impatient to play with the news toys, so I hope > people recognice the feeling. > > My biggest problem is that I have a large TV antenna pole sitting ontop > of one of the chimneys. It is needed as the house is partly down a valey > to get a nice and clean TV signal. Fairly new also, as the old antennas > was broken. > > I have got part of the gear to mount the GPS antennas on the other > chimney, but lack the proper antenna tubes. > > My big L1 choke rings (AT575) can be mounted without the central tube > but I wish to use the combination of that and the three outer mounting > screws. I need to build a mounting platform for it anyway. > > Besides, I think the way I pull cables and what cables I use could > improve. My RG 58 is certainly not optimum, but it is cheap, easily > available alongside connectors and suitable strip and crimp tools. > > So... hints for tubes and other mounting aspects would be nice. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
