VE6JY - DON MOMAN
DO33or - 112 49 49.6 West and 53 44 31.3 North
Just a bit NE of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- There are currently 14 towers on this 30 Ha ( 80 Acres ) antenna
farm.
Ranging from 15 Meters (50 feet) to 48.7 Meters (160 feet) high.
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The surrounding area is rural pasture and farmland.
See a view looking south.
View picture
From the northwest thru east, the ground drops off gradually several
hundred feet, giving a good takeoff into Europe and Africa. (Will put pix looking NE here)
- Primary antenna choices include 4 high yagi stacks on
10 and ,
15 meters , a 3 high stack on
20 meters , 5 element (+ another 3 ele)
40 meter
yagi and a 4 element fullsize
80 meter yagi. All yagis are home
built, as are nearly all the rotating mechanisms.
- Secondary antenna choices include several triband 10/15/20 beams strategically located to allow in band multiplier
hunting, a large
4-30 Mhz log periodic , several 80m bobtail
curtain arrays and the usual assortment of inverted Vees
/dipoles for 80 and 160 meters.
- Receiving choices include numerous beverage antennae, with
enough choices that both 80 and 160 stations can listen in any
of the main directions. Unless a rampaging bull moose decides to
tear through the antenna farm, that is!
- Future plans (besides keeping it all up and rotating!) include
80 and 160m 4 square vertical arrays and monoband distantly
located (i.e. from the main stack tower for that band) yagis for
10 thru 40m. Other future plans include looking at installing 4
wide fixed arrays of yagis for 10 thu 20m.
- Recently (summer 2000) a forty ton Rough Terrain Crane
(P&H Omega RT40) was purchased to assist with tower and
antenna installation and repairs. With the jib and
extensions it is capable of reaching to about 53 meters (173 feet)
and lifting 2260 Kg (5000 pounds) at that height. (pix of crane
soon to be put on FTP site )
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Just as some say "Life is too short for QRP", it may also
be too short to just use a ginpole, especially when one is
dealing with tower sections 20' long that weigh hundreds of pounds
and antennae weighing over 1000 pounds. I have been
fortunate to have some good friends to assist me with the
tower work over the past few years- Dan VE6XH, Heinx
VE6LDX, Barry VA6DX and Maurice VE6MAA have all
logged a lot of air time around here. The ground crew is
also very important and thanks go out to Don VE6JKB, Wayne
VE6NWR, Mitch VE6JTM and Denis VE6AQ who seem to
be always available at short notice, plus all the others
that I have missed.
Note from the webmaster:... I, J. T. Mitchell (Mitch) VE6JTM put
this site up as I felt that the world
needed to know about the 80 meter beam. It has grown
from that small
site. Any errors are all my doing, so don't be to hard
on Don, besides he has no time for this computer stuff. He is keep busy
building his station so people like me can come out a play once and a while.
Thanks Don...
Comments about this site may be directed to Don VE6JY at VE6JY@narc.net or
to Mitch at VE6JTM@NARC.net
Last update 2001-07-25 @ 01:56 UTC by VE6JTM