I currently have a Maco V58 mounted on a heavy duty 32 foot mast. It works well where it is. I also have a new Maco M104C beam still in the box that I will be putting up in the next month or two. My plan A is to install a 40 foot tower, mount the M104C horizontally and the V58 above it with the ground planes removed. After making some calls, it turns out that this is currently going to cost a @#$$-load of money to do mainly because of excavating a 4x4x4 hole and getting 2.5 to 3 yards of concrete delivered here and moved about 220 feet from the road to the tower location. Folks that do this type of work are super-busy with little interest in handling any deliveries less than 10 yards of concrete and I have zero interest in manually mixing 3 yards of concrete.
This has me thinking of maybe just leaving the V58 on the pole it is on but moving it to the NE corner of my house and standing up another 33 foot, heavy duty, guyed pole with the Yaesu G-800DXA rotor and horizontal M104C about 35 feet away from the V58. The rotor says it will support a maximum of 8 sq. ft. wind load when pole mounted and the M104C is about 6.3 sq ft, so there is some wiggle room but not a whole lot. I can't put the V58 above the M104C on the pole-mounted rotor because this combination exceeds the maximum wind load rating for the rotor.
If my sheet-metal worker Dad was still with us I am sure he would come up with something that would allow the rotator to be securely mounted to a plate at the top of the pole instead of having to use the pole mount extension. So many things pass by where loved ones are missed.
Will a ground plane antenna and a horizontal beam antenna interfere very much with each other's propagation patterns if they are about 35 feet apart? The V58 will be to the north side of the beam and my contacts rarely come from the north. I think the dense trees at my north property line already act as a decent barrier.
This has me thinking of maybe just leaving the V58 on the pole it is on but moving it to the NE corner of my house and standing up another 33 foot, heavy duty, guyed pole with the Yaesu G-800DXA rotor and horizontal M104C about 35 feet away from the V58. The rotor says it will support a maximum of 8 sq. ft. wind load when pole mounted and the M104C is about 6.3 sq ft, so there is some wiggle room but not a whole lot. I can't put the V58 above the M104C on the pole-mounted rotor because this combination exceeds the maximum wind load rating for the rotor.
If my sheet-metal worker Dad was still with us I am sure he would come up with something that would allow the rotator to be securely mounted to a plate at the top of the pole instead of having to use the pole mount extension. So many things pass by where loved ones are missed.
Will a ground plane antenna and a horizontal beam antenna interfere very much with each other's propagation patterns if they are about 35 feet apart? The V58 will be to the north side of the beam and my contacts rarely come from the north. I think the dense trees at my north property line already act as a decent barrier.
