[BULK] - [TowerTalk] antenna installation

[Mike Rhodes]

Depending on what sort of antennas you intend to put on your mast, you may
want to consider mounting the bottom (presumably largest) antenna first and
lifting the smaller antennas thru it. Then just let the big antenna rest on
the top plate as you jack the mast up thru its loose clamps, I did it that
way when I did my original installation about 10 years ago but lost the
whole thing in a storm a year and a half ago. In the time between
installations, I completely forgot about doing it that way and stacked
everything from the top down. When it came time to put the HF beam up
(C4SXL), I could not rotate it into position because the smaller antennas
were in the way! Ended up hiring a crane because it was the only way to get
the antenna up there! Only real downside to that was that I wish I would
have called the crane in a month earlier - it sure would have saved a bunch
of headaches and failed efforts.

Mike / W8DN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tower (K8RI)" <tower at rogerhalstead.com>
To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [BULK] - [TowerTalk] antenna installation


>
>
>
> > You can:
> >
>
> This is the way I did mine, (
> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/tower.htm) except due to the sheer
> weight I had to use a "come along" to raise the mast as I installed the
> antennas.
>
> Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
> N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
> www.rogerhalstead.com
>
> > -Slide the mast way down inside the tower (with the rotor moved out of
the
> > way), clamp it that way using the thrust bearing setscrews, and install
> the
> > "top" antenna; then, slide it up a few feet and install the "second from
> > top" antenna, and so forth until you're done.
> >
> > -Or, you can use a mast with climbing spikes, a good belt and a lot of
> guts.
> >
> > -Or you can install the tower with the antennas already assembled onto
it,
> > if you have the right raising fixtures, or a lot of help, or a crane...
> >
> > The first option is the one most people use.
> >
> > WB2WIK/6
> >
> > "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
> > enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: George Yazz [SMTP:kc7hkp at teleport.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:55 PM
> > > To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
> > > Subject: [BULK] - [TowerTalk] antenna installation
> > >
> > > how does one install a antenna on the very top of a mast, i can see
how
> > > you stand on the tower and may be reach up a couple of feet. but if
you
> > > are puting up 2 antennas
> > > how and the heack can you get to the top of a 15 foot (what ever size)
> > > mast and bolt every thing together.
> > >
> > > i am going to put up a rohn 25 tower and 2 antennas,
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > P. George Yazzolino
> > > 14801 NE 20th Circle
> > > Vancouver, Wa. 98684
> > > KC7HKP  Grid  CN-85
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