Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 4/2/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houxe!drutx!n2ic From: n2ic@drutx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: Tribanders Message-ID: <1205@drutx.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 10:43:29 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.1205 Posted: Tue Oct 2 10:43:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 19:31:54 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 25 I wholeheartedly endorse the KT-34XA. It typically outperforms my monobanders. A word of warning about roof-mounted tripods, however: I used the South River 15 foot tripod for 3 years when I lived in New Jersey. It is not intended for use with ham radio antennas (as the manufacturer will be happy to tell you). I had a Wilson 3-element tribander on top of it (not a particularly large antenna). In addition to anchoring the tripod into the roof, I had one set of guy wires set into the roof rafters. Despite this precaution, I experienced many problems with damaged cross-members in the tripod (i.e. they would break due to twisting of the tripod). Also be warned that without modification, the rotor mounting in the tripod is not large enough to accomodate a "normal" sized ham rotor (i.e. HD-73, Ham-4, etc.), and the opening in the top of the tripod will not accommodate a standard 2" mast. In summary, the South River roof tripods are, at best, a temporary solution ( 2-3 years), which will require considerable maintenance (usually in mid-February when the weather is at its worst). 73, Steve, N2IC/0