[SEDXC] Steel Telescoping Mast Needed
Rich Arland
k7sz at live.com
Fri Apr 16 18:58:29 PDT 2010
Hi Gang:
It's like this: The "Antenna Eating Tree" took down one end of my 40M EDZ and bent the ground-mounted 30ft mast that held up the center of the dipole (Pictures available upon request)!
I wanted to eventually put this antenna feedpoint up on the roof using a tripod (Thanks to Dick, K2UFT). However, I think that it would be better to use a 20 or 30ft push-up, steel telescoping mast (you know the type, like we use to use to put up TV antennas) rather than using three of the 10.5 ft long galvanized chain-link top rail poles stacked end-to-end that I had been using. This mast needs to be guyed at the 10 and 30 ft level if possible, which brings up using a 30ft push-up telescoping steel mast that has guy rings as part of the mast system.
Therefore, does anyone out there in Radio Land have a 20 or 30ft push-up, telescoping steel mast that is surplus to requirements that they would be willing to sell/trade? Fry's Electronics in Duluth has 20ft-ers for $50, but I would hope I could help someone recycle a mast rather than having to purchase new. We're "goin' green" 'ya know!!
If so, PLEASE e-mail me off-list or call 770-995-4214 which is my home fone.
Thanks in advance.
VY 73 es GUD DX!
Rich Arland, K7SZ
Bent Dipole Ranch
Dacula, GA
Cogito Ergo CQ! (I Think Therefore I Ham!)
(With apologies to Rene Descartes, 1596 to 1650)
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