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No, I believe you answered my second question quite well, Henry...Thank You.

My A-99 does not have the optional ground plane kit on it, and basically all the reports I have ever read regarding adding the ground plane kit to an A-99 were not good, so at the cost of nearly US$100 for the kit I'm thinking maybe it might be wiser to just invest a bit more and replace the whole antenna with something like the Maco V 5/8 or V-5000 and see how that does before I try a beam?

That being said, my first question which I think you may have overlooked was regarding "Stacking two side by side". That questions was as follows...

Stacking two side by side is an interesting concept. So am I to understand that you're suggesting connecting a boom perpendicular to two vertical beams, say M104C's and then attach the mast to the center of that boom? If that is correct how far apart should the two verticals be? Perhaps I am just misunderstanding what you meant by Stacking two side by side?

In any regard, Thank you for all your efforts to assist me

<blockquote data-quote="McHarley94" data-source="post: 854713" data-attributes="member: 70785">No, I believe you answered my second question quite well, Henry...Thank You.My A-99 does not have the optional ground plane kit on it, and basically all the reports I have ever read regarding adding the ground plane kit to an A-99 were not good, so at the cost of nearly US$100 for the kit I&#039;m thinking maybe it might be wiser to just invest a bit more and replace the whole antenna with something like the Maco V 5/8 or V-5000 and see how that does before I try a beam?That being said, my first question which I think you may have overlooked was regarding &quot;Stacking two side by side&quot;. That questions was as follows...Stacking two side by side is an interesting concept. So am I to understand that you&#039;re suggesting connecting a boom perpendicular to two vertical beams, say M104C&#039;s and then attach the mast to the center of that boom? If that is correct how far apart should the two verticals be? Perhaps I am just misunderstanding what you meant by Stacking two side by side?In any regard, Thank you for all your efforts to assist me</blockquote>

[QUOTE="McHarley94, post: 854713, member: 70785"] No, I believe you answered my second question quite well, Henry...Thank You. My A-99 does not have the optional ground plane kit on it, and basically all the reports I have ever read regarding adding the ground plane kit to an A-99 were not good, so at the cost of nearly US$100 for the kit I'm thinking maybe it might be wiser to just invest a bit more and replace the whole antenna with something like the Maco V 5/8 or V-5000 and see how that does before I try a beam? That being said, my first question which I think you may have overlooked was regarding "Stacking two side by side". That questions was as follows... Stacking two side by side is an interesting concept. So am I to understand that you're suggesting connecting a boom perpendicular to two vertical beams, say M104C's and then attach the mast to the center of that boom? If that is correct how far apart should the two verticals be? Perhaps I am just misunderstanding what you meant by Stacking two side by side? In any regard, Thank you for all your efforts to assist me [/QUOTE]

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