[TowerTalk] FW: Installing large Yagi

[Tower (K8RI)]

If you have the room at the tower you can try what I did.
I took mine right up the side of the tower, rotating the antenna at each of 
the three sets of guys.
There are two photos about half way down the page at:
http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/tower.htm
>
It was necessary to rotate the tribander  on both axis to get around the top 
sets.

Once at the top the antenna was clamped to the mast. The maist was then 
raised using a "come along" and clamped in the thrust bearings prior to 
installing the rotor.
The same method was used to raist the 7L 6-meter yagi which has a 28' 10" 
boom.

Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com

> I am about to install a Moseley TA-53 (the boom is 20 feet long)as the 
> lower
> antenna on my 62 ft Rohn 25 tower. For the life of me I cannot come up 
> with
> a good idea. There are two sets of guy wires, one at thirty feet, and one 
> at
> the top. The mast is 8 ft high above the thrust bearing. I have a 
> Cushcraft
> 26-B2 UHF yagi at the top of the mast. There are large trees at the base 
> of
> the guy wires.
>
> If I try to pull the antenna up the top of the upper guy wire I will need 
> a
> line attached to each end of the boom. I don't know how I would be able to
> retrieve these lines once I have the antenna attached to the tower.
>
> The irony of my situation is.that I hired this work done at my previous 
> qth,
> and did not pay attention to job then.
>
> Any help will be appreciated,
>
> Tom (TC) Cogsdell N4XVP
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