Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:21:00 -0400
The biggest problem is corrosion. Any oil burner generate a small, but significant amount of acid that will corrode your tower, antenna, rotor, etc. faster than away from the chimney. I have not seen
Suppose the only thing burned are those store-bought duraflame fire logs? John KK6PLG To: towertalk@contesting.com Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Antenna near chimney - bad idea? Message-ID: <14e45ea4da6-
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 08:06:05 -0500
Radical Shaft (Radio Shack?) and other outlets used to sell chimney mounts expressly for putting (usually) TV antennas on the chimney. I always thought it was a scam to sell more antennas, coax or 30
Author: TexasRF--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:22:19 -0400
There was a time before cable tv that nearly all tv antennas were installed using a chimney mount. These mounts are inexpensive and no risk of creating a roof leak compared to other support methods.
Another consideration -- mortar holding the chimney bricks/stones deteriorates with time. And it's not all that strong in the first place. Every time there is a minor earthquake here in the Seattle a