[TowerTalk] No Tool Fast Assembly HF Beam

[EZ Rhino]

Two ideas:

I recently built a portable tower for Field Day and the sections go together with lynch pins.  (Google: "Lynch Pins" under Images tab).  Or: How about running shock cord through all sections just like tent poles?  And finally, if it was me I'd leave the elements and boom assembled and just throw them on top of my car on the roof rack.  If the elements are still too long, take them apart into halves.

Chris
KF7P






On Jul 8, 2010, at 21:32 , Gary Joe Mayfield wrote:

Roger,

   You are exactly right.  I would be very interested in where a guy could
find a "you install"- "A round headed pin or ball with a retainer and spring
loaded".  This is for Field Day /temporary/ where we always seem to be
missing a screw, nut or washer.

   The other idea I like is the split end hose clamp idea.  Maybe a guy
could solder the hose clamp to the element so it would always be there when
you need it.

Keep the good ideas Coming, 73,
Joe

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] No Tool Fast Assembly HF Beam

On 7/7/2010 10:26 PM, gdaught6 at stanford.edu wrote:
> Joe wrote...
> 
> 
>> Has anyone equipped the elements of a beam with some neat quick assembly
>> scheme?  I was thinking of the buttons often found in telescopic tent
poles,
>> or the quick and easy clamps that keep the legs of my camera tripod
>> extended.
>> 
I'm assuming this would be a temporary "quick to set up and tear down" 
temporary set up like FD, or a camping trip.

I would think the above would be a good idea.  A round headed pin or 
ball with a retainer and spring loaded. IOW just like the telescopic 
tent poles.
> Force-12 recommends putting a pop-rivet in, but NOT popping it.  Just put
it in and
> hold it in place with a turn of black electrical tape.  When it comes time
to
> disassemble it, it goes really quickly!
> 
> The element to boom connection depends on what your antenna is.  I'm
guessing that
> a set of minimally tightened U-bolts would be most common.
> 
Which is what the Force 12 C-19 uses.
73

Roger (K8RI)
> 73,
> 
> George T Daughters, K6GT
> CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
> October 2-3, 2010
> 
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