[TowerTalk] Portable Tower Question

[Steve Rodowicz]

Military surplus AB-577 meets all of your criteria.

See:   http://home.att.net/~surplusben/prod01.htm

73, Steve - N1SR

At 11:15 AM 6/25/2003 -0500, John Wallace wrote:

>I am interested in building or buying a truly portable tower or guyed mast
>assembly that would extend up to about 40 feet in height.
>
>By "truly portable", I mean that one or two people ought to be able to lift
>the thing out of the back of a pickup truck, carry it a few hundred feet,
>set it on the ground, and have it up in less than 30 minutes, using just a
>sledgehammer to drive in guy wire stakes & ground rods.
>
>In my application, the weight and wind resistance of the antenna itself
>would be negligible.
>
>I don't want to re-invent the wheel; can anybody point me to design
>information and/or to a commercial vendor?
>
>Thanx in Advance,  john  W2GNI  ... jwallace AT karta DOT com