[TowerTalk] Temporary tower installation

[Jim Brown]

Several years ago, K7JA gave a very useful talk at Pacificon or Visalia 
about various ideas for Field Day. One was to use the modular Army 
surplus 4-ft tubular mast sections with a tripod adapter to build a 
support for small antennas. W6GJB and I bought a bunch of these sections 
and adapters and use them for Field Day, CQP county expeditions, and 
most recently for a 7QP county expedition.  Pictures are worth more than 
a thousand words, so see pictures in this link. k9yc.com/7QP.pdf  We 
found sources for the hardware wandering around the Dayton flea market.  
We use one of these setups to rig a C3SS at 25-30 ft. The C3SS is a 
great, light weight, compact tri-bander, probably a bit lighter than an 
A3S.

73, Jim K9YC

On Tue,8/16/2016 8:43 AM, Ken Fritz wrote:
> I'm looking to erect a temporary tower for CQ WW SSB.  I have 40ft of Rohn
> 25G and an A3S that I'd like to put up.  I've seen a number of ways to do
> it but I'd like to hear from those who have some experience.  What's the
> easiest and safest way to do something like this?