[TowerTalk] Anything Wrong With This Set-up??

w1nk at cox.net w1nk at cox.net
Mon Feb 12 17:28:41 EST 2007


It looks like my wife has agreed to the idea of my putting up a small tribander in the woods behind our house.  After doing some looking around, what seems to fit the bill of a low profile set-up is a Mosley Mini-33A WARC on a 30 foot mast & concrete-mounted tipping base as supplied by Charles Penninger, KC9DAO (www.penninger.com) .  The rotor (my rebuilt then stored HD73) will be base-mounted.  Obviously the mast will have upper & lower sets of guys & rotating guy rings.

With that brief description of my plans, and having never raised a tribander (except on a low roof-mounted tripod) I've a few questions:

1) What would be an appropriate guying "system"? Phillystran or something else? I assume 5/16" Dacron line is NOT recommended.

2) How is proper guy tension determined?

3)What is the best method for anchoring the guys? Earth anchors? Cement? Heck, could I bolt the guys to the bases of the nearby trees (8-12+ inches in diameter)? .... admittedly this sounds a little dumb.

Antenna issues aside .... I realize this is a compromise antenna as compared to a C3SS or SteppIr .... Is there anything "wrong" with this set-up?  What other things should I consider?

Frank, W1NK



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