[TowerTalk] Portable Tower Fabrication?

[Chris BONDE]

At 03:59 PM 2001-12-15 +0000, Rick Bullon wrote:

>>On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 "Rick Bullon" <kc5ajx@hotmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > Regular tent stakes were used to guy  the  tower with.
>>
>>Tent stakes?  You mean those 10 inch angular pieces of
>>thin metal or plastic?   I  hope NOT !
>Yes that is what we used the little 10" metal tent stakes. I few times we 
>used some pieces of rebar. The field day site is very open few trees and 
>nothing else. The tower was setup far enough away from the operating 
>positions that if it fell all that would be hurt was the antenna. This is 
>a field day operation and temporary. If this had been an actual emergency 
>what you have all the stuff your club used to put up the antennas? After 
>all isn't that was field day was intended to do practice for an emergency :-)
>73
>Rick
>KC5AJX
Yes, I agree.  When I hear of some clubs that take all winter to set up for 
field day I start wondering.  But when our club goes out for filed day we 
enjoy the company and make sure we make a dozen or so contacts.

Chris opr VE7HCB


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