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Re: [TowerTalk] Ground Mast Mounting

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ground Mast Mounting
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 23:02:13 -0700
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On 10/6/2023 6:39 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
What a fantastic portable setup and also a great presentation.

Glen does a great job.

I am wondering where you can set up a station like that?   Is it on public
land?  Do you need permission?

All sorts of places. Tomorrow, we'll be in a State Park. We've done at least a dozen county expeditions for CQP and 7QP at multiple locations in UT, NV, and CA. Here's a slide deck I put together for multiple setups in NV the first year we did it. k9yc.com/7QP.pdf

When planning, we make extensive use of Google Earth looking for sites, often trying to find them on county lines. Having selected some possibilities, we drive east to survey them; sometimes they work, sometimes we have to poke around to find ones that do, or that are better. We've set up on the long-abandoned construction of US50 in NV, running parallel to the current road. We've set up on dirt/gravel roads running alongside railroad tracks, and in the middle of a field a few hundred yards from I80. We have rarely asked.

At least 15 years ago, before I joined the team, N6RNO found a triangle of gravel between a 90 degree turn in a state highway and a dirt road that turned off of it to farms/ranches. The first time he set up there, a State Police car stopped by to see what they were doing. Turns out his ranch was across the highway, and his property included the triangle. He was happy to give us permission to stay there, and our team used that location for 6-8 years. It was in Tehama County.

After having chosen our sites, we camped at the most distant, where we operated for 2-3 hours, then moved west to the next. We've activated as many as 6 counties in a day 7QP. And as we drove between them, W6JTI worked CW riding shotgun to Glen in his pickup.

As we've all gotten older, we're doing only one setup. W6JTI stays home for CQP, where he activates Humboldt Co from his mountaintop station. Frank runs CW QRP, and often beats 100W stations in other counties.

73, Jim K9YC



John KK9A




Jim Brown K9YC wrote:

Take a look at the system we use for portable operation with mil-surplus
mast sections. It's about halfway into this link, which are slides for a
talk W6GJB did at Pacificon several years ago. He found the tripod adapter
fitting at Dayton about ten years ago. I suspect they're available online.

A dozen or so slides farther into it, Glen shows guy anchors that can be
driven almost anywhere. They're used to tie down small aircraft.

http://k9yc.com/trailer.pdf

73, Jim K9YC

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